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Page 44
... action among the essays , as it were . It was not really difficult , having chosen such illustrations of action , to show that all action ends in evil and that the only thing to do is to refuse to act at all . From the beginning - one ...
... action among the essays , as it were . It was not really difficult , having chosen such illustrations of action , to show that all action ends in evil and that the only thing to do is to refuse to act at all . From the beginning - one ...
Page 119
... action of the novel begins - for burial in Jefferson . It is , admittedly , macabre comedy , shirking nothing of the ... action — the one limited , specific , obsessive action - is purposeless . The comedy arises , I suppose , from the ...
... action of the novel begins - for burial in Jefferson . It is , admittedly , macabre comedy , shirking nothing of the ... action — the one limited , specific , obsessive action - is purposeless . The comedy arises , I suppose , from the ...
Page 285
... action as a whole we have to hold all three novels in mind simultaneously . Nor , for that matter , are we so very remote from C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers , where there are , so to speak , simultaneous actions proceeding in the ...
... action as a whole we have to hold all three novels in mind simultaneously . Nor , for that matter , are we so very remote from C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers , where there are , so to speak , simultaneous actions proceeding in the ...
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