“Perhaps they are riddles with another meaning,” I ventured. “Or do you have another hypothesis?” “I have, but it is still vague. It seemed to me, as I read this page, that I had read some of these words before, and some phrases that are almost the same, which I have seen elsewhere, return to my mind. It seems to me, indeed, that this page speaks of something there has been talk about during these past days. . . . But I cannot recall what. I must think it over. Perhaps I’ll have to read other books.” “Why? To know what one book says you must read others?” “At times this can be so. Often books
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