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The voices I give, however decorated with observations and interpretations of the other, are, nevertheless and certainly, very much my own.
But they do not speak for the other--and therefore speak falsely.
They speak rather to the other: the other in me, the other in you, the other in my other friend--assuming he would not finally and for the first time turn at this particular outrage to the real we call "his story" and laugh with undisguised derision at my preposterous fancy with no relation
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― Flight from Nevèrÿon
― Flight from Nevèrÿon
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What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language, coming to know one's own belief system in someone else's system.
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― The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
― The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
