The Journey Not the Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1969The author's account of World War II, his wife's death, and his political and literary activities. "A splendid ending to one of the most remarkable literary achievements of our time" (New York Times Book Review). Index; photographs. |
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Page 14
... horrible look of blank suffering and despair which from the beginning of human history men have seen under the crown of thorns on the faces of their persecuted and humiliated victims . In this photograph what was even more horrible was ...
... horrible look of blank suffering and despair which from the beginning of human history men have seen under the crown of thorns on the faces of their persecuted and humiliated victims . In this photograph what was even more horrible was ...
Page 53
... horrible unreality into a still more horrible reality . During the months of the phoney war , when everything seemed to be for the moment inexplicably suspended , there was this incessant feeling of unreality and impending disaster ...
... horrible unreality into a still more horrible reality . During the months of the phoney war , when everything seemed to be for the moment inexplicably suspended , there was this incessant feeling of unreality and impending disaster ...
Page 67
... sitting over our meagre war rations , we talked as if we had known each other for a life- time , finding that the world and the universe presented the same delightful , horrible , and ridiculous face to 67 VIRGINIA'S DEATH.
... sitting over our meagre war rations , we talked as if we had known each other for a life- time , finding that the world and the universe presented the same delightful , horrible , and ridiculous face to 67 VIRGINIA'S DEATH.
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