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Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“In any modern city, a great deal of our energy has to be expended in not seeing, not hearing, not smelling. An inhabitant of New York who possessed the sensory acuteness of an African Bushman would very soon go mad.”
— W. H. Auden, book Forewords and Afterwords
"The Justice of Dame Kind", p. 464
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
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