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| 35 | 186 | View more quotes about surely">Surely I had heard it somewhere, but when, and where? Then I, kneeling before him, in nadu, uneasy beneath his scowl, aware of his whip, was suddenly no longer sure I had heard it before. |
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| 35 | 183 | "No, Master," I said. |
| 35 | 184 | I sensed that his hostility had nothing to do with me personally. |
| 35 | 185 | I was sure of the voice. |
| 35 | 186 | Surely I had heard it somewhere, but when, and where? Then I, kneeling before him, in nadu, uneasy beneath his scowl, aware of his whip, was suddenly no longer sure I had heard it before. |
| 35 | 187 | How could I truly know? Might I not be mistaken? Perhaps what I had heard was merely a similar voice? Might I then have conflated the two? It is easy to invent fictions which masquerade as memories, often plausibly, even vividly. |
| 35 | 188 | Memory itself, with its gaps, substitutions, and distortions, is often unreliable. |
| 35 | 189 | How painful can be its comings and goings, its games, tricks, and jests! And how can one distinguish between an authentic memory and a seeming memory? Falsity would not be falsity did it not hide under the claim of truth. |