For a moment, in that dark Dorset night, reason and science… - John Fowles

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For a moment, in that dark Dorset night, reason and science dissolved; life was a dark machine, a sinister astrology, a verdict at birth and without appeal, a zero over all.

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John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist and essayist.

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