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... universe where personality was at the same time the means and end of every endeavour . - Our world today is less sure of itself and more modest , perhaps because it has abandoned the idea of the omnipotence of the individual , but it is ...
... universe where personality was at the same time the means and end of every endeavour . - Our world today is less sure of itself and more modest , perhaps because it has abandoned the idea of the omnipotence of the individual , but it is ...
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... universe is not random , but that man and things are in the grip of a malign but perversely intelligent force . In this respect Amis is at the opposite pole to Alain Robbe - Grillet , who posits man and objects as existing in icy mutual ...
... universe is not random , but that man and things are in the grip of a malign but perversely intelligent force . In this respect Amis is at the opposite pole to Alain Robbe - Grillet , who posits man and objects as existing in icy mutual ...
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... universe . In another of Borges's stories , ' Pierre Menard , Author of Don Quixote ' , a twentieth - century French author learns Spanish and undertakes the gigantic task of writing Don Quixote again in exactly the same words . This ...
... universe . In another of Borges's stories , ' Pierre Menard , Author of Don Quixote ' , a twentieth - century French author learns Spanish and undertakes the gigantic task of writing Don Quixote again in exactly the same words . This ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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