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“[I]n contrast to his master, van Horssen has no talent for drawing. He is an anatomist, and for each autopsy he hires a professional craftsman. His working method consists in precise notes, so precise that when he rereads them everything comes right back before his eyes. For this, too, is a way. Writing.”

“And what a stroke of luck that such a book had fallen into the hands of such a person in such a place. A phenomenon known to travel psychologists by the name of synchronicity, evidence of the world making sense.”