The task is...not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.
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- Author's profession: Scientist
- Nationality: austrian
- Born: August 12, 1887
- Died: January 4, 1961
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Still, my fascination with Buchanan did not abate, nor was I able, as the Seventies set in, to move the novel forward through the constant pastiche and basic fakery of any fiction not fed by the springs of memory -- what Henry James calls (in a letter to Sarah Orne Jewett) the "fatal cheapness [and] mere escamotage" of the "'historic' novel."From the author's introduction to the signed first edition.
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