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Updated: June 16, 2025
I said that it seemed to me a reasonable enough argument, but that it got one very little way forward. "A man," I said, "might know the contents of Space and the laws of their arrangement and yet be unable to see anything more than his fellows. It is a purely academic knowledge. His mind knows it as the result of many deductions, but his senses perceive nothing." Leithen laughed.
From far up the Glen came the sound of the pony's hoofs. The stag had been loaded up and the gillies were returning. Leithen looked at his watch. "We'd better wait and see the beast," he said. "... Well, nothing happened for more than a year. Then one evening in May he burst into my rooms in high excitement.
"'I can't stay long, he told me, 'for I'm off to the Alps to-morrow and I have a lot to do. Before then he used to plunge readily into his story, but now he seemed shy about beginning. Indeed I had to ask him a question. "'Things are difficult, he said hesitatingly, and rather distressing. Do you know, Leithen, I think you were wrong about about what I spoke to you of.
"But there was one thing I could see very clearly," Leithen went on, "and that was Hollond's own case. This crowded world of Space was perfectly real to him. How he had got to it I do not know. Perhaps his mind, dwelling constantly on the problem, had unsealed some atrophied cell and restored the old instinct. Anyhow, he was living his daily life with a foot in each world.
My name's Alexander Turnbull, and I've been seeven year at the trade, and twenty afore that herdin' on Leithen Water. My freens ca' me Ecky, and whiles Specky, for I wear glesses, being waik i' the sicht. Just you speak the Surveyor fair, and ca' him Sir, and he'll be fell pleased. I'll be back or mid-day.
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