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Page 18
Mr. X was always unpleasant to us and one day succeeded during a kind of
gymkhana by a piece of violent horseplay in putting Scafe and me in an
ignominious position. It is curious — and then again, if one remembers Freud, it is
of course ...
Mr. X was always unpleasant to us and one day succeeded during a kind of
gymkhana by a piece of violent horseplay in putting Scafe and me in an
ignominious position. It is curious — and then again, if one remembers Freud, it is
of course ...
Page 59
I can't write about anything else; here are the only realities, and the curious
feelings they excite, the only pleasant feelings. Perhaps they are not the only
ones; when I read your letters first, you are for the moment real again. I can laugh
too ...
I can't write about anything else; here are the only realities, and the curious
feelings they excite, the only pleasant feelings. Perhaps they are not the only
ones; when I read your letters first, you are for the moment real again. I can laugh
too ...
Page 135
It had normally a curious air of slight depression, but at the same time
exclusiveness, superiority, isolation. Only the "best people" and of course only
white men were members. At the same time there was none of the physical
luxuriousness, ...
It had normally a curious air of slight depression, but at the same time
exclusiveness, superiority, isolation. Only the "best people" and of course only
white men were members. At the same time there was none of the physical
luxuriousness, ...
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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, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Political scientists Sri Lanka |
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