How could he explain beauty, or music, or art, to this . . … - E.E. "Doc" Smith

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How could he explain beauty, or music, or art, to this . . . this matriarchal savage? How explain cerise to a man born blind? And above all, who had ever heard of having to explain to a woman — to any woman, anywhere in the whole macrocosmic universe — that she in particular was beautiful?

E.E. "Doc" Smith

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