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A first-person narrator who possesses involuntary clairvoyant and precognitive powers describes a life of increasing alienation: childhood tenderness followed by emotional isolation, a medical prognosis of early death, and a compulsion to foresee others' thoughts and futures. Those gifts bring unwanted knowledge, erode relationships, and produce obsessive fixation on a woman whose engagement to the narrator's brother provokes jealousy and despair. The narrative traces attempts to control or escape prophetic insights, explores themes of privacy, free will versus determinism, and the psychological cost of privileged knowledge, and culminates in the narrator's foreseen final moments.

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Title: The Lifted Veil

Author: George Eliot

Release date: May 1, 2000 [eBook #2165]
Most recently updated: March 10, 2022

Language: English

Credits: David Price

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THE LIFTED VEIL

Give me no light, great Heaven, but such as turns
To energy of human fellowship;
No powers beyond the growing heritage
That makes completer manhood.