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"His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience -- the experience of reading someone else's thoughts -- over real life. "
— Ian Rankin (Knots and Crosses)
— Ian Rankin (Knots and Crosses)
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