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Vogel once heard a Euleurian priestess attribute the witlessness of fools to what ‘they didn’t know they didn’t know they didn’t know.’ He was perplexed. What didn’t he know he didn’t know he didn’t know? What silliness. What rank drivel. He ran after the priestess and demanded an explanation. Her guards dragged him away. What priestly gibberish, what ecclesiastical double talk. He went back to a life lived largely out of reflex — but a haunted man. He contrived the idea of turning around and seeing the back of his head, of being alive during his own funeral, of getting a glimpse of life with the veil drawn back. Clearly, he was not to be trusted around the clerical set.
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