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From: The Literary Review
Date: 19940922
Author:Lytle, Jesse H.; Peyrou, Manuel

"TOWARDS THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY," said the writer Felix Durand in his rhetorical way, full of symmetries and comparisons, "in a house on Cannon Row, in the neighborhood of Westminster, John Locke claimed that an individual's comprehension was like an empty room, that it was open to impression from ideas; two centuries later, Gaston Leroux, at his writing desk at Le Matin, facing the noisy boulevard, thought that a crime in a closed room could have an impression on one's comprehending and wrote The Mystery of the Yellow Room. There were a few differences: for Locke, the ...

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