Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a mishe…

Harlan Ellison
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Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear things. ✨ Harlan Ellison (2014). Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories, p.103, Open Road Media
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