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Literature , art , poetry , music , history , mathematics , science were pitchforked into his mind in chaotic incomprehensibility . When later on in Ceylon I became an extremely incompetent shooter of big game and , in cutting up the ...
Literature , art , poetry , music , history , mathematics , science were pitchforked into his mind in chaotic incomprehensibility . When later on in Ceylon I became an extremely incompetent shooter of big game and , in cutting up the ...
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I was therefore always doing two or three things at the same time , concentrating in the centre of my mind on the main business — in this case the villagers and the enquiry — and attending on the periphery of my mind almost ...
I was therefore always doing two or three things at the same time , concentrating in the centre of my mind on the main business — in this case the villagers and the enquiry — and attending on the periphery of my mind almost ...
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a upon my mind and even character which has proved indelible , a kind of reserve or withdrawal into myself which makes me inclined always to stand just a little to one side of my environment . But for a time I did dismiss Ceylon from my ...
a upon my mind and even character which has proved indelible , a kind of reserve or withdrawal into myself which makes me inclined always to stand just a little to one side of my environment . But for a time I did dismiss Ceylon from my ...
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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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