L. P. Hartley was an English novelist best known for 'The Go-Between' (1953), whose famous opening line — 'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there' — became one of the most quoted sentences in English literature.
Hartley's exploration of memory as temporal dislocation — the adult narrator unable to recognize the world of his childhood as the same country — provided Nolan with a literary template for the subjective foreignness of remembered experience.
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