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... Sirius , which asked , " In what respects is man identical with beast ? " ( " Sketch - Map " 211 ) . In Sirius Stapledon gave his most thorough and vivid treatment of the relationship between human and animal experience in a novel he ...
... Sirius , which asked , " In what respects is man identical with beast ? " ( " Sketch - Map " 211 ) . In Sirius Stapledon gave his most thorough and vivid treatment of the relationship between human and animal experience in a novel he ...
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... Sirius steeled his resolve to use the novel to chastise moralistic convention . Stapledon the author is not unlike Sirius the dog , re- sponding to a scolding authority by lifting a leg and calmly , deliberately grooming the narrative's ...
... Sirius steeled his resolve to use the novel to chastise moralistic convention . Stapledon the author is not unlike Sirius the dog , re- sponding to a scolding authority by lifting a leg and calmly , deliberately grooming the narrative's ...
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... Sirius is their revelation of how , in the process of composition and revision , Stapledon drew on intimate feelings and events and transfigured them in a miraculous tale that is not about an extramarital affair but about spiritual ...
... Sirius is their revelation of how , in the process of composition and revision , Stapledon drew on intimate feelings and events and transfigured them in a miraculous tale that is not about an extramarital affair but about spiritual ...
Contents
Alien Encounters | 15 |
Roger Bozzetto Moreaus TragiFarcical Island | 34 |
Grace Rereading Lester del Reys Helen OLoy | 45 |
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