Phoenix, Volume 1Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 1990 - Commonwealth literature (English) |
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Page 17
... things . You must trust what I tell you . There is no - one like that here . It is only children who believe in ghosts and dead people roaming about . It is just your weak condition that makes you think of such things . " " But ...
... things . You must trust what I tell you . There is no - one like that here . It is only children who believe in ghosts and dead people roaming about . It is just your weak condition that makes you think of such things . " " But ...
Page 20
... things , she will not be able to make an offering of these things to him for just a day . With characteristic impatience he would ask , " What happened then ? " What happened then ? Nothing happened . The images multiplied . The ' dead ...
... things , she will not be able to make an offering of these things to him for just a day . With characteristic impatience he would ask , " What happened then ? " What happened then ? Nothing happened . The images multiplied . The ' dead ...
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... things destroyed ; they also evoke memories of the warmth , the radiance of things past , as when the images of the fire and the rose become a single metaphor : 1 . See Selected Poems , ( O.U.P ) 1984 , p . II . Have I not gazed ...
... things destroyed ; they also evoke memories of the warmth , the radiance of things past , as when the images of the fire and the rose become a single metaphor : 1 . See Selected Poems , ( O.U.P ) 1984 , p . II . Have I not gazed ...
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