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Page 21
There was something extraordinarily real and at the same time unreal in the
sights and sounds and smellsthe whole impact of Colombo , the G . O . H . , and
Ceylon in those first hours and days , and this curious mixture of intense reality
and ...
There was something extraordinarily real and at the same time unreal in the
sights and sounds and smellsthe whole impact of Colombo , the G . O . H . , and
Ceylon in those first hours and days , and this curious mixture of intense reality
and ...
Page 118
Every year that this happened , it seemed to me more and more miraculous , for
the whole earth changed around one in an hour . I remember one year riding in
the morning from my bungalow on the seashore to the kachcheri through a dead
...
Every year that this happened , it seemed to me more and more miraculous , for
the whole earth changed around one in an hour . I remember one year riding in
the morning from my bungalow on the seashore to the kachcheri through a dead
...
Page 125
Though the whole thing concerned me intimately , completely fascinated , with a
grim objectivity I watched him " dealing with ” the situation . I think perhaps that I
can best show what happened by quoting the account of it which I wrote to Lytton
...
Though the whole thing concerned me intimately , completely fascinated , with a
grim objectivity I watched him " dealing with ” the situation . I think perhaps that I
can best show what happened by quoting the account of it which I wrote to Lytton
...
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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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