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““The strangeness that made everything sparkle came from me. Worlds rose out of my bottomless perplexity””

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“Were the “pampas,” perhaps, flatter than the land they were crossing? He doubted it; what could be flatter than a horizontal plane?”

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“En suma: si decía que estaba solo, no era más que porque no tenía con quién hablar.”

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