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Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

I could perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matters of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you. — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

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