Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.”
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Christopher Morley
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The Haunted Bookshop
The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
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Attributed to Lee in "Harpy Hall of Fame: Mother Ann Lee (1736-1784)" at The Pursuit of Harpyness (4 February 2009) http://www.harpyness.com/2009/02/04/harpy-hall-of-fame-mother-ann-lee-1736-1784/; no earlier attributions have as yet been located.
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