He sees the land of meaning, and one path to it, and the so-called “no…

Janet Frame
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He sees the land of meaning, and one path to it, and the so-called “normal” people traveling swiftly and in comfort to the land; he does not include the shipwrecked people who arrive by devious lonely routes, and the many who dwell in the land in the beginning. ✨ Janet Frame (1980). Faces in the water
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