Thread: Historical Novels, Period Dramas, etc. Should Not Exist!
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Old 09-16-2016, 02:24 PM   #121
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
It's not Emerson. It's Jessamyn West, from To See the Dream (1957).

In the 1957 first edition, it's on page 39 and is actually "Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures"
For irony's sake, I was really hoping it would turn out to be a quote from a fictionalized version of the man in the historical novel "Ralph Waldo Emerson: Zombie Survivalist"
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