“From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.”

Janet Frame

Janet Frame - “From the first place of liquid darkness...” 1

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