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I pass on to the next criticism, which a little "editing" on my part could have averted

Date of account: Published 1907
Source: Seen and Unseen
Reference: Seen and Unseen · selected passage 103
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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I came to the conclusion from what I saw, and still more from what I heard, that Mr Fielding Hall must have appealed sometimes to his imagination for his facts, and allowed an exquisite poetical fancy to cast its glamour even over these. But the beautiful Golden Temple of Rangoon defies all powers of exaggeration. We went there again and again, and wandered amongst its endless small temples, representing various forms of worship, including even a Chinese joss-house, which is stamped upon my memory through a disaster, which I have always connected with this special temple; rank superstition though it be.

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