John Fowles: The Magus (unabridged)

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Release Date: 4th Sep 2012
Catalogue No: NA0108
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Series: Complete Classics
Length: 26 hours 24 minutes

John Fowles: The Magus (Unabridged)

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Part 1: Chapter 1

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At least, along with a group of fellow odd men out at Magdalen…

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Chapter 2

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Chapter 3

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When I came back, she was standing with a glass of Scotch in her hand.

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Alison knelt beside me.

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Chapter 4

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For days, afraid of Maggie…

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I couldn't see her face.

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One day she said, 'I've got to go for my interview tomorrow.'

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Chapter 5

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'I waited hours for you.'

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The next morning, my last but two…

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Chapter 6

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Chapter 7

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This lack of open water meant also that there were no wild animals…

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Another letter came from her the next day.

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Chapter 8

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One kind of person is engaged in society without realising it…

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The day before term ended I felt the balance tip.

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Chapter 9

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Part 2: Chapter 10

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The sun beat down on my back.

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Chapter 11

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The leading estiatoras of the village…

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Chapter 12

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Chapter 13

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I bit into my first kourabie, and gave an appreciative nod.

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As I walked behind him, I said…

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His head turned on me with a snakelike swiftness…

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Chapter 14

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Chapter 15

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'Do you like this?'

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He picked up a book and slapped the dust off it.

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He sat against the parapet with his back to the view.

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Chapter 16

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Chapter 17

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I swilled the last of the ouzo round in my glass.

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'I came to Phraxos looking for a house to rent.'

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Chapter 18

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'You see the child I was.'

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'No obstacles except those of propriety…'

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'I felt like a small boy beside her.'

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Chapter 19

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'The madness of it, Nicholas.'

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He stood up.

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Chapter 20

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'I stayed in that crater all night.'

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Chapter 21

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Chapter 22

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We remained staring at each other.

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Chapter 23

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I looked around again, towards the house.

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He had already had his own…

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I was silent.

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Chapter 24

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He stopped speaking for a moment…

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'But there was so much misunderstanding between us.'

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Chapter 25

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I went swiftly down the hall to the front door.

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Chapter 26

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'He's asked me over next week again.'

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Chapter 27

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At last it began to seem plain.

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She had bare shoulders and arms.

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Chapter 28

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She went and stood against the parapet at the far end of the terrace…

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Chapter 29

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'Constantly, during that first visit, I was shocked…'

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'He was the most abnormal man I had ever met.'

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I went to the parapet that faced East.

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I looked back at Conchis.

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'Very well. Let us have a little more brandy first.'

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Chapter 30

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I had never had a telepathic experience in my life…

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Chapter 31

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'Give me your hand.'

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I thought for one mad moment that he had crept up behind us.

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It was a wild, dislocating, disactualising, shock.

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Chapter 32

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Chapter 33

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She threw me a veiled look, then stared ahead again.

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'I haven't been very happy on Phraxos.'

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Chapter 34

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'When shall I see you again?'

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Chapter 35

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He gave me a piercing look I was meant to believe…

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I had the now familiar feeling that came in conversations at Bourani.

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I remained staring at the edge of the tablecloth.

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Chapter 36

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I began to stare at the star.

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At some point it began imperceptibly to change.

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Chapter 37

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I was glad, with a simplicity that recalled earliest adolescence.

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Chapter 38

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I remembered Lily's prophecy…

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There was a long silence.

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Chapter 39

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It should have cast a shadow over the day.

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Chapter 40

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At the top of it we came to…

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Chapter 41

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She thrust the saucepan under my nose…

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Chapter 42

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We walked on a way…

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'It's not that I believe any of these things…'

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We got to Arachova about five…

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'That reminds me.'

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She began to bang the bedrail with her fists…

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Chapter 43

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She turned down the pale blue flame of the spirit-stove…

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I went after her.

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Chapter 44

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'I think I told you that when modern history…'

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However, from being rather frightened by the solitude…

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'He said, "I had no choice."'

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'I got into the boat…'

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'I watched this rare specimen of humanity for some time.'

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'I went back to the farmstead a wiser young man.'

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I trained my glasses on him.

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Chapter 45

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Conchis kissed her hand, and then she reached it to me…

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A second later I had let go of her and was reaching in my pocket…

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She leant backward and stretched her arm along the seat back…

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She answered obliquely.

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She started to walk down past the statue.

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Chapter 46

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Lily looked coolly down at me and said…

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I lit my cigarette.

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She handed me three other letters.

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'But you must still have smelt a rat?'

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'We had screen tests. Some woman Maurice knew…'

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'You said yes again?'

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She looked back over her shoulder.

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Chapter 47

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I began my supplementary cross-examination.

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After a moment or two…

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Chapter 48

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Chapter 49

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We came to where the beach curved away…

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I began to walk in the direction that would bring me…

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In a few seconds a pale movement told me I was right.

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'What the bloody hell's the game?'

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The colonel moved up the path to where the sergeant…

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As he did so there was a cry, an exclamation.

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Chapter 50

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I began to walk along towards the bay with the three cottages.

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On the far side of the village there was another harbour…

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'What kind of singing and dancing?'

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Chapter 51

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I lay on the bed and thought of her coming to me…

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My tears did not last very long.

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Chapter 52

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'A victim is someone who has something inflicted on him…'

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This was the 'last trick' of Julie's letter.

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We silently toasted each other, across the lamp-lit table…

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The new-risen moon was amber…

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Chapter 53

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He let me look a few moments longer…

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The beam was extinguished, the engine stopped.

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'Poor Anton.'

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'‘So the eighty of us were marched off to the school…'

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They took the three to the school, where they were interrogated.

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'We went into another bare room next door.'

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'The night passed.'

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'Beyond those three atrocious shapes I saw the hostages.'

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'I understood then.'

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Chapter 54

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'But let me finish by showing you the report that Anton wrote.'

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Chapter 55

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'She wrote me a letter.'

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He caught sight of something behind me.

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Joe appeared in the music-room door, with two heavy suitcases.

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Chapter 56

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Perhaps it was seeing her in contemporary…

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Under the colonnade, Hermes stood waiting.

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I lit a fourth match.

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Chapter 57

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Julie's suitcase stood at the foot of the bed.

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Chapter 58

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She had the amateur liar's habit of looking earnestly into one's eyes.

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I took her hand and led her silently and quickly up the alley…

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I went and stood by the window, the now-torrential rain…

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Chapter 59

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I lay on top of her, mastering her…

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A little smile at the corner of her mouth…

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Chapter 60

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All her story – her stories…

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I lit another Philip Morris.

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Chapter 61

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As soon as I had done so…

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The next figure was African…

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Perhaps a minute passed like that.

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'Good. Now… if I may be allowed I shall first introduce myself.'

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I could not keep control any longer.

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The subject's family…

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Though I have little sympathy as a fellow human being…

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Adam called something.

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No one moved…

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Chapter 62

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A new shot.

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Then light came from behind the curtains.

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Lily.

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Chapter 63

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I climbed a hundred yards or so to the top of the hill.

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Pitching and rolling, the little steamer, made late by the meltemi…

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Next I opened another envelope from London.

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Chapter 64

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There was a swift conversation in Greek between the headmaster…

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He watched me a moment more, then came to the point.

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Chapter 65

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Finally, on different paper, a scrawled message…

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The 'orders' looked as if they had all been typed out…

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Chapter 66

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I returned to the waiting yellow taxi.

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The dinner that evening was dreadful…

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Chapter 67

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I walked up and down my room…

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Part 3: Chapter 68

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I wanted to say that I hadn't come as a tourist…

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Chapter 69

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The next morning I went round to the estate agents…

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Chapter 70

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Faculty of English, Osaka University.

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Evening Standard of January 8, 1952.

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Chapter 71

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I walked over the gravel and under a brick arch.

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'Can you remember one thing…'

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She looked down at her cigarette.

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Chapter 72

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'I have some ugly questions to ask.'

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She reached up to the mantelpiece beside…

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I would not turn and look at her.

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Chapter 73

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There was only one person I wanted to talk with.

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I stood at the bar waiting for the drinks…

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'Fantastic.'

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Chapter 74

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I analysed the situation.

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Chapter 75

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I looked down.

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A minute later, we were going down the corridor…

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Chapter 76

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A young Victorian of my age would have thought nothing…

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She was always equable…

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Rain pounded down, dripped in the gutters…

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If only I had told her at the beginning…

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Chapter 77

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Chapter 78

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She was walking slowly across the grass, towards the east.

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'You're the only person I've ever felt that about.'

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She was not crying, I leant forward and looked.

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There was a smell of a bonfire.

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John Fowles: The Magus (unabridged)

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