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always something in the water in my mother’s bedtime stories:
Given the dedication, is this preamble / prologue from our author or from our narrator?
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
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― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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― Life of Pi
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