They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they’d had the same experience of looking up from their books

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they’d had the same experience of looking up from their books

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they’d had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.

Donna Tartt,The Secret History (1992).

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