'...He peopled it with beings of his own fancy, lovely or terrific, according to his own passing humour. Granted a measure of imagination, the solitary child is often the happiest child, since the social element, with its inevitable materialism, is absent, and the dear spirit of romance is unquenched by vulgar comment.'
from The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet (Chapter I)
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