Only then did he understand that he really wanted to know n… - Paul Bowles

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Only then did he understand that he really wanted to know nothing about El Ga’a beyond the fact that it was isolated and unfrequented, that it was precisely those things he had been trying to ascertain about it.

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Paul Bowles (30 December 1910 – 18 November 1999) was a composer, author, and traveler.

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