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”I suppose it had never seen a man; therefore it did not know what a man was. It described an infinite number of circles about my body and saw that I moved, that I had eyes, arms, legs, a divine aspect, and colossal stature. Then it said to itself, ‘This is probably the maker of butterflies.’ […]
Then a blow from a towel ended the adventure.”
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Then a blow from a towel ended the adventure.”
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”The reader may be shocked by the frankness with which I describe and all but celebrate my own mediocrity; but then, frankness is the prime virtue of the dead. In life, the public gaze, conflicting interests, clashing desires oblige us to conceal our old rags, to disguise the snags and patches, to keep from the world the revelations we confide to our own conscience”
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