To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. I…

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To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2006). Orlando (Annotated): A Biography, p.123, HMH
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