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It was a strange three weeks . I lived in a kind of twilight world , physically and mentally . They gave me nothing to eat except from time to time a cup of Benger's food , I think it was called . I have a always had an infinite ...
It was a strange three weeks . I lived in a kind of twilight world , physically and mentally . They gave me nothing to eat except from time to time a cup of Benger's food , I think it was called . I have a always had an infinite ...
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always had an infinite capacity of sleeping when I want to sleep and I slept almost the whole three weeks away . Somewhere , too , deep down in me I had an iron determination not to die . One day after I had been there a week or ten ...
always had an infinite capacity of sleeping when I want to sleep and I slept almost the whole three weeks away . Somewhere , too , deep down in me I had an iron determination not to die . One day after I had been there a week or ten ...
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But gradually our letters thinned out and sometimes weeks or months passed without our writing . If two people are separated for years and by thousands of miles , they can write to each other either every week or only at long intervals ...
But gradually our letters thinned out and sometimes weeks or months passed without our writing . If two people are separated for years and by thousands of miles , they can write to each other either every week or only at long intervals ...
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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 Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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