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He was undoing the wooden box, and he took out the silver sword. "This is the best of my treasures," he said. "It will bring me luck. And it will bring you luck, because you gave it to me. I don't tell anybody my name - it is not safe. But because you gave me the sword and I didn't borrow it, I will tell you." He whispered. "It is Jan."

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Ian Serraillier

Ian Serraillier

Born: September 24, 1912
Died: November 28, 1994 (aged 82)
Bio: Ian Serraillier was a British novelist and poet.
Known for:
  1. The Silver Sword (1956)
  2. Enchanted Island (1964)
  3. There's No Escape (1950)
  4. Road to Canterbury (1979)
  5. Chaucer and His World (1967)

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