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... and pain and bereavement and brutality , but also its negative emptiness and desola- tion of personal and cosmic boredom , the feeling that one is endlessly waiting in a dirty , grey railway station 9 Virginia's Death.
... and pain and bereavement and brutality , but also its negative emptiness and desola- tion of personal and cosmic boredom , the feeling that one is endlessly waiting in a dirty , grey railway station 9 Virginia's Death.
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... tion . I am insisting on this because it is essential to an under- standing of the difference between the political and his- torical climate of 1939 and that of 1914 ; it also explains why people of my generation regarded with despair ...
... tion . I am insisting on this because it is essential to an under- standing of the difference between the political and his- torical climate of 1939 and that of 1914 ; it also explains why people of my generation regarded with despair ...
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... tion Tribunal . ( My salary for editing the Political Quarterly was £ 80 and I was paid four guineas for each case which I heard on the Tribunal . ) Why did I do all this work year after year ? I was sixty- five in 1945 when the war ...
... tion Tribunal . ( My salary for editing the Political Quarterly was £ 80 and I was paid four guineas for each case which I heard on the Tribunal . ) Why did I do all this work year after year ? I was sixty- five in 1945 when the war ...
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