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... Farmer , " " The Illinois Village , " and " On the Building of Springfield . " He prefaced these poems with the statement that " taken as a triad . they hold in solution my theory of American civ- ilization . " The first achieves ...
... Farmer , " " The Illinois Village , " and " On the Building of Springfield . " He prefaced these poems with the statement that " taken as a triad . they hold in solution my theory of American civ- ilization . " The first achieves ...
Page 666
... farmer's control over that cycle . Early in the essay , the neat , abstract pattern established by the pride and omnipotence of the farmer goes awry . As always in White's work , the planned performance collapses when it must be enacted ...
... farmer's control over that cycle . Early in the essay , the neat , abstract pattern established by the pride and omnipotence of the farmer goes awry . As always in White's work , the planned performance collapses when it must be enacted ...
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... farmer in control , has severely shaken the farmer's certainty about his own fate : I had assumed that there could be nothing much wrong with a pig during the months it was being groomed for murder ; my confidence in the essen- tial ...
... farmer in control , has severely shaken the farmer's certainty about his own fate : I had assumed that there could be nothing much wrong with a pig during the months it was being groomed for murder ; my confidence in the essen- tial ...
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