You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though — China Miéville, This Census-Taker
You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though — China Miéville, This Census-Taker
You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though — China Miéville, This Census-Taker
You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though — China Miéville, This Census-Taker
You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though — China Miéville, This Census-Taker
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You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though you might be telling two stories at once.

— China Miéville, This Census-Taker
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