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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Someone" data-source="post: 1743481" data-attributes="member: 5656">“Lying? Me? Every word that comes out of my mouth is a perfect and trascendent example of sincerity, m´lady. For you know that I have, as a lone person in this uncaring world, to present my case in the most favorable way. And our sacred social customs require the listener to discount nine tenths of what he hear. Suppose I relate the facts as an unintelligent animal would. In that case, you would automatically assume I´m hiding something, and that would misdirect you from the truth. This way, in your near infinite sharpness, perspicace, clarity and perceptiveness you can separate the gleaming nuggets of important facts from the sordid affairs of my insignificant life.”“Anyway, since I´m afraid my prose is making you lose your precious time, I´ll shorten things. About Zosimo, I must suppose –but I don´t know for sure, since I don´t get along with thieves and criminals- he´s a servant in Abu´s palace, so he must be there. And about the masked man, I know little about him. He found me, so to speak: he appeared one day, face covered with a wooden plain mask, and manifested an interest to possess certain book, interest high enough to pay well for it. No other details, how to find him or anything. One day, I met Zosimo and mentioned that. He brought me the book, ending a debt he had with me. And it happened that you ended our… business before I expected, so, short of cash, I offered you the book. Hearing rumors about Abu´s dissapearance, and the masked mage defeated in a battle with fire and lightning everywhere, I said to myself: <Ahmed, an evil genie has cursed you again with bad luck. Better hide for some weeks>, activity that I was going to start when you dignified my house with your presence.”“As you see, everything I ever told you was true, even if in sake of brevity some facts were obscured.”</blockquote>

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