“And what a clever guy this Harpole is, isn’t he? Awfully good at noticing all kinds of little unusual things about people and keeping them on file in his head. So he’s built a theory around us, has he? He added two and two and came up with five, but nobody else in the house was aware there was anything to count.”

— Kage Baker , book In the Garden of Iden

Source: In the Garden of Iden (1997), Chapter 12 (p. 128)

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