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I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself. Within, it was like the buried memory of a name that will not come to the tongue for utterance.

Jay Saunders Redding
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Jay Saunders Redding (1992). “A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977”, p.44, University Press of Kentucky
I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself. Within, it was like the buried memory of a name that will not come to the tongue for utterance.