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terra incognita

James felt himself entering terra incognita when the conversation suddenly switched

from sports, which had never been his strong point, to 18th-century Albanian theater, his specialty.

from his beloved hobby of stamp collecting to celebrity gossip, which might as well have been a foreign language to him.

from theoretical knowledge to practical knowledge.

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