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"If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye, what then?" – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten." – Umberto Eco, in 'The Name of the Rose' (1980).
"Know ye that at the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to that part of the Terrestrial Paradise, which was…
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