“Well, I’ll try to sketch it out for you, but I’ll have to repeat stuff I’ve told you before.”

— Poul Anderson, book The Boat of a Million Years

“That’s all right. I’m a simon-pure layman. My basic thought habits were formed early in the Iron Age. Where it comes to science, I can use plenty of repetition.”
Source: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 3 (p. 331)

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