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509 The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James (Part 1)

The History of Literature

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The Importance of Understanding

I told George Corvik what had befallen me, and that my information had an immense effect upon him. He was immensely stirred up by the anecdote I had brought from bridges. When I remarked that the eye seemed what the printed page had been expressly invented to meet, he immediately accused me of being spiteful because I had been foiled. The thing Verica had mentioned to me was exactly the thing he, Corvik, had wanted me to speak of in my review. On my suggesting at last that, with the assistance I had now given him, he would doubtless be prepared to speak of it himself: "He admitted freely that before doing this there was more he must understand

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