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- Author: Arthur Machen
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 78
- ISBN-10: 1515310833
- ISBN-13: 9781515310839
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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It was my privilege, many years ago, to make the acquaintance of the obscure literary hermit, whose talk I have tried to reproduce in the pages that follow. Our first meeting was one of those chance affairs that now and then mitigate the loneliness of the London streets, and a second hazard led to the discovery that we had many interests in common. I think that the Hermit (as I shall call him) had begun to find the perpetual solitude of his years a growing terror, and he was not sorry to have a listener; at first, indeed, he talked almost with the joy of a child, or rather of a prisoner who has escaped from the house of silence, but as he chose subjects which have always interested me intensely, he gave as much pleasure as he received, and I became an assiduous visitor of his cell.
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- Author: Arthur Machen
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 78
- ISBN-10: 1515310833
- ISBN-13: 9781515310839
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
It was my privilege, many years ago, to make the acquaintance of the obscure literary hermit, whose talk I have tried to reproduce in the pages that follow. Our first meeting was one of those chance affairs that now and then mitigate the loneliness of the London streets, and a second hazard led to the discovery that we had many interests in common. I think that the Hermit (as I shall call him) had begun to find the perpetual solitude of his years a growing terror, and he was not sorry to have a listener; at first, indeed, he talked almost with the joy of a child, or rather of a prisoner who has escaped from the house of silence, but as he chose subjects which have always interested me intensely, he gave as much pleasure as he received, and I became an assiduous visitor of his cell.
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