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... fact a second theory that is just as plausible , and this is that fiction should use life merely as raw material ... facts of nature they were satisfied if they did not outrage the spectator's sense of reality . It was left for the ...
... fact a second theory that is just as plausible , and this is that fiction should use life merely as raw material ... facts of nature they were satisfied if they did not outrage the spectator's sense of reality . It was left for the ...
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... fact that he could talk with interest to persons commonly thought so excruciatingly dull that their fellows fled from them as though they owed them money . It may be that here he was but indulging the professional instinct that was ...
... fact that he could talk with interest to persons commonly thought so excruciatingly dull that their fellows fled from them as though they owed them money . It may be that here he was but indulging the professional instinct that was ...
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... fact that he was engaged in espionage . Probably the Spaniard , with a very human desire to seem important , had done no more than talk mysteriously ; but on Caypor's information he was watched when he went to Germany and one day caught ...
... fact that he was engaged in espionage . Probably the Spaniard , with a very human desire to seem important , had done no more than talk mysteriously ; but on Caypor's information he was watched when he went to Germany and one day caught ...
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