"Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer-like Macbeth's witches-mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book-telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban." - A S Byatt

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"Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer-like Macbeth's witches-mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book-telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban." - A S Byatt

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