“Could it be, he wondered, he’d only thought he’d seen what he’d seen because of his own desires, researches, expectations?”

Section 10 (pp. 117-118)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

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American author, professor and literary critic 1942

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Source: V. (1963), Chapter Eight
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