Let a man get up and say Behold this is the truth and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a p

Let a man get up and say 'Behold, this is the truth' and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching, a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

Author: Virginia Woolf

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