Irreconcilables: he should stay here and conform; he should — not stay here (remembering no time when he was not here, Harley could frame the second … - Brian Aldiss

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Irreconcilables: he should stay here and conform; he should — not stay here (remembering no time when he was not here, Harley could frame the second idea no more clearly than that). Another point of pain was that "here" and "not here" seemed to be not two halves of a homogeneous whole, but two dissonances.