-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though hi — Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though hi — Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though hi — Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though hi — Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though hi — Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
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-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history & the written word were friends, rather than adversaries!

— Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
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