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John Dickson Carr:

Among unthinking chroniclers it is much the fashion, at certain movements of mysticism, to embark on a reflection as to how, if it were not for such-and-such a small thing happening, then such-and-such larger thing would not have happened, until they have ultimately proved King Priam’s bootblack responsible for the fall of Troy. Which is, demonstrably, nonsense.

Carr, John Dickson, The Blind Barber (New York: Collier Books, 1962), p. 149

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