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... uproots oneself into a strange land and a strange life, one feels as if one were
acting in a play or living in a dream. And plays and dreams have that curious
mixture of admitted unreality and the most intense and vivid reality which, I now
see ...
... uproots oneself into a strange land and a strange life, one feels as if one were
acting in a play or living in a dream. And plays and dreams have that curious
mixture of admitted unreality and the most intense and vivid reality which, I now
see ...
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Dutton, the P.M., was a strange character; a strange fate, partly due to me, befell
him, but I will deal with him and his fate in greater detail later. This, as I have said,
was the top stratum of Jaffna society whose social routine was incredibly ...
Dutton, the P.M., was a strange character; a strange fate, partly due to me, befell
him, but I will deal with him and his fate in greater detail later. This, as I have said,
was the top stratum of Jaffna society whose social routine was incredibly ...
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But I got to know a good deal about them from enquiries which I had to hold in the
kachcheri, and in particular from the strange procedure with regard to Kandyan
marriages and divorce. This procedure was characteristic of the inveterate ...
But I got to know a good deal about them from enquiries which I had to hold in the
kachcheri, and in particular from the strange procedure with regard to Kandyan
marriages and divorce. This procedure was characteristic of the inveterate ...
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, Incorporated, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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