“The task of the narrator is not an easy one, he said. He appears to be required to choose his tale among the many that are possible. But of course that is not the case. The case is rather to make many of the one. Always the teller must be at pains to devise against his listener´s claim — perhaps spoken, perhaps not — that he has heard the tale before.”
Cormac McCarthy, The crossing

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