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Steven Wright

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

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The speaker is saying they had the ability to imagine what might happen in the future, but their vision was not clear or direct. Instead, their insights were distant and somewhat indirect, like seeing something out of the corner of their eye.

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