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And truly, I to hope that I have made this thing somewise clear unto you; for, indeed, it doth be something hard to set out; for every Age hath the subtleties peculiar to that Age; and these to be hard to the understanding of other Ages, but yet to seem plain and utter natural, even without thought, unto the Peoples of the Age.

— William Hope Hodgson The Night Land (1912)

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And, as doth be human, I brake my rule straightway in the beginning.

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We truly to think that the world doth even now be old; and this to have seemed a true thing unto every age that ever did live.

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And mayhap there to be no mystery in the thing; but a score of natural explainings, if that I did know, or had patience to think long enough upon such.

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