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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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