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| 4750b27 | "Listen to me," cried Syme with extraordinary emphasis. "Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front -" | extraordinary-emphasis gabriel-syme hiding secret-of-the-world | G.K. Chesterton | |
| ecdde3d | "What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost." | gabriel-syme lamppost professor-de-worms scientific-detachment | G.K. Chesterton |