“Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.”

“Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night”, p. 265
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)
Context: “You’re confusing me.”
“But not deliberately so,” Coyote says. “Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.”

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