In this place, whether we call it Bruddersford or Pittford Falls, perfection is not to be found, neither in men nor in the lot they are offered, to say nothing of the tales we tell of them, these hints and guesses, words in the air and gesticulating shadows, these stumbling chronicles of a dream of life.

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Bruddersford is a fictional town, rather like Priestley's native Bradford, in Yorkshire, England. Pittford Falls is a fictional town in Ontario, Canada.

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