A man cursed with the power to foresee the future and read minds is poisoned by the knowledge. Eliot's eerie supernatural novella.
Books mentioned in The Lifted Veil (1)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “I read Plutarch, and Shakespeare, and Don Quixote by the sly, and supplied myself in that way with wandering thoughts, while my tutor was assuring me that "an improved man, as distinguished from an ignorant one, was a man who knew the reason why water ran downhill."”