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It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.
It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.
Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
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- E.L. Doctorow
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- Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for E. L. Doctorow: documented activity in 1960. Wikidata Q335232, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335232 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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