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Page 58
... rendered no more conventionally than the children ; they are curiously reluctant pirates , the last , half - hearted remnants of a dying race . They are in some ways more at the mercy of the children than the children are of them . Yet ...
... rendered no more conventionally than the children ; they are curiously reluctant pirates , the last , half - hearted remnants of a dying race . They are in some ways more at the mercy of the children than the children are of them . Yet ...
Page 59
... rendered , one feels , exactly , and her essential being is unparaphrasable ; rendered partly by a process of indirection , by a kind of symbolism that often has reference to the strange life of animals , as in the chapter that ...
... rendered , one feels , exactly , and her essential being is unparaphrasable ; rendered partly by a process of indirection , by a kind of symbolism that often has reference to the strange life of animals , as in the chapter that ...
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... rendered in solid actuality . One feels it as an element permeating the characters . One feels this , too , in The ... renders them more ' dependent for the food of spiritual life ' upon each other than Albee's indecent need for Jews to ...
... rendered in solid actuality . One feels it as an element permeating the characters . One feels this , too , in The ... renders them more ' dependent for the food of spiritual life ' upon each other than Albee's indecent need for Jews to ...
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