“I am uncomfortably aware of the very little I have seen and experienced in general, and of our country in particular,' Miss Trevelyan had just confessed, 'but the little I have seen is less, I like to feel, than what I know. Knowledge was never a matter of geography. Quite the reverse, it overflows all maps that exist. Perhaps true knowledge only comes from death by torture in the country of the mind.'
She laughed somewhat painfully.
'You will understand that. Some of you, at least, are the discoverers,' she said, and looked at them.”
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Patrick White,
Voss