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... words , one sees that they imply a reservation . More perhaps than any writer who has ever lived , Joyce lived almost entirely in a world of words , and , very often , of words as sounds , divorced , that is , from meaning . And every word ...
... words , one sees that they imply a reservation . More perhaps than any writer who has ever lived , Joyce lived almost entirely in a world of words , and , very often , of words as sounds , divorced , that is , from meaning . And every word ...
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... words from many languages have been super- imposed , so that one moves , as it were , in a world of multiple puns ... words have in themselves some mystic significance . Because of Joyce's refusal to commit himself to the proposition ...
... words from many languages have been super- imposed , so that one moves , as it were , in a world of multiple puns ... words have in themselves some mystic significance . Because of Joyce's refusal to commit himself to the proposition ...
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... words . As Frederic Henry says in A Farewell to Arms : I was always embarrassed by the words sacred , glorious , and sacrifice and the expression in vain . We had heard them , some- times standing in the rain almost out of earshot , so ...
... words . As Frederic Henry says in A Farewell to Arms : I was always embarrassed by the words sacred , glorious , and sacrifice and the expression in vain . We had heard them , some- times standing in the rain almost out of earshot , so ...
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