“There may be someone here who knows less about all this than I do,” Clemens said, “but I can’t imagine who.”

— Avram Davidson, book The Phoenix and the Mirror

Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 6

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“There may be someone here who knows less about all this than I do,” Clemens said, “but I can’t imagine who.”

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