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The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark,our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams.
The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark,our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams.
Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
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- Gene Wolfe
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- Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Gene Wolfe: documented activity in 1966. Wikidata Q361149, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q361149 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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