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| Behind the world in which we live, far in the background, lies another world, and the two have about the same relation to each other as do the stage proper and the stage one sometimes sees behind it in the theater. Through a hanging of fine gauze, one sees, as it were, a world of gauze, lighter, more ethereal, with a quality different from that of the actual world. Many people who appear physically in the actual world are not at home in it but are at home in that other world. But a person’s fading away in this manner, indeed, almost vanishing from actuality, can have its basis in health or in sickness. —The aesthete, “A,” in the introduction to “The Seducer’s Diary” (S.K.’s Either/Or, Book I, p. 306) | ||||||||||
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