"'There's a queer performance going on in the other world,' he said. 'It's unbelievable. I never dreamed of such a thing. I ā I don't quite know how to put it, and I don't know how to explain it, but ā but I am becoming aware that there are other beings ā other minds ā moving in Space besides mine.'"
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John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 ā 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and politician who was Governor-General of Canada from 1935 to 1940.
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