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QUOTATION:Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
ATTRIBUTION:Howard Nemerov (1920–1991), U.S. poet, novelist, critic. “Reflexions of the Novelist Felix Ledger,” sct. C, Journal of the Fictive Life (1965).
 
 
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