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                                                          June 18, 2004
                                                             
In "The Dain Curse"                                                     
the Continental Op           Published "1929", 
gives advice to              pieced together 
Gabrielle:                   from earlier stories.        
                                           
                                                       
   "Nobody thinks clearly, no matter what 
   they pretend.  Thinking's a dizzy     
   business, a matter of catching as many
   of those foggy glimpses as you can and
   fitting them together the best you    
   can.  That's why people hang on so    
   tight to their beliefs and opinions;  
   because, compared to the haphazard way
   in which they're arrived at, even the 
   goofiest opinion seems wonderfully    
   clear, sane, and self-evident.  And if
   you let it get away from you, then    
   you've got to dive back into that     
   foggy muddle to wangle yourself out   
   another to take its place."           
                                    

p.166, Chapter XIX, "The Degenerate" 
                                            

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