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The Man Who Found Out

Algernon Blackwood

Professor Mark Ebor, the scientist, led a double life, and the only persons who knew it were his assistant, Dr. Laidlaw, and his publishers. But a double life need not always be a bad one, and, as Dr. Laidlaw and the gratified publishers well knew, the parallel lives of this particular man were equally good, and indefinitely produced would certainly have ended in a heaven somewhere that can suitably contain such strangely opposite characteristics as his remarkable personality combined.

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A Vision

Annie L. Burton

There remains to be told the story of my conversion and how I came to write the foregoing history of my life.

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I Never Bet Against Nicolas Cage

Costin Nițu

There used to be a vision.

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The Vision

Lucian of Samosata

When my childhood was over, and I had just left school, my father called a council to decide upon my profession. Most of his friends considered that the life of culture was very exacting in toil, time, and money: a life only for fortune’s favourites; whereas our resources were quite narrow, and urgently called for relief.

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