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... look at Art . Our " textbooks " teach us how to look at Art , what happened in History ( meaning war and commerce ) , and how to write . I cannot say for certain whether our current history textbook will inform us that we , as freshman ...
... look at Art . Our " textbooks " teach us how to look at Art , what happened in History ( meaning war and commerce ) , and how to write . I cannot say for certain whether our current history textbook will inform us that we , as freshman ...
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... look like had he not undertaken the intense , lifelong self - discipline which his poems , like all good Chinese poems , reveal . His self - discipline is Ch'an or Zen both in its evidence - the poem - and in its practice . His little ...
... look like had he not undertaken the intense , lifelong self - discipline which his poems , like all good Chinese poems , reveal . His self - discipline is Ch'an or Zen both in its evidence - the poem - and in its practice . His little ...
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... look far into the west , remembering far east . Bashō concluded his journey at Kyoto ; in many ways , mine began there . Hours of sitting , aching back , trying to get my spine straight . Sometimes I thought my knees would break . I ...
... look far into the west , remembering far east . Bashō concluded his journey at Kyoto ; in many ways , mine began there . Hours of sitting , aching back , trying to get my spine straight . Sometimes I thought my knees would break . I ...
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The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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