Phoenix, Volume 1Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 1990 - Commonwealth literature (English) |
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Page 17
... sound of his voice became more and more feeble , and ebbed into nothingness . It was another sound that was assailing her ears . A whirring sound growing louder and louder in volume like that of some huge machinery . Or is it the roaring ...
... sound of his voice became more and more feeble , and ebbed into nothingness . It was another sound that was assailing her ears . A whirring sound growing louder and louder in volume like that of some huge machinery . Or is it the roaring ...
Page 23
... sound flows in me and out into the night's still- ness . Your serene aria is a seed , from which shoot after shoot will spring , until , holding the whole world it has engendered , it returns after its thirtieth variation . Your music ...
... sound flows in me and out into the night's still- ness . Your serene aria is a seed , from which shoot after shoot will spring , until , holding the whole world it has engendered , it returns after its thirtieth variation . Your music ...
Page 35
... sound of roots wrenched ; 3. that a single image turning into metaphor may carry within it not a single message but many implications , the most immediate being that while nature does not encourage fictions about equality , it may ...
... sound of roots wrenched ; 3. that a single image turning into metaphor may carry within it not a single message but many implications , the most immediate being that while nature does not encourage fictions about equality , it may ...
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