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“Now,” says Hans, “even if he does try to see something, he’ll only see the world of his own conceptions; and if he tries to hear something, he’ll hear the world of his own conceptions; and so forth, and so forth, and so on. And if he should set my pantry on fire, it will be his own conceptions that he is burning; and I doubt there can be contagion between a puppet’s mind and the world.”

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