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Page 103
... instance . Waugh's contribution was only to give the joke a classical perfection . But the anti - Kipling sense of humour expressed in it was something much more perva- sive , and much more his . He had extended and explored that sense ...
... instance . Waugh's contribution was only to give the joke a classical perfection . But the anti - Kipling sense of humour expressed in it was something much more perva- sive , and much more his . He had extended and explored that sense ...
Page 107
... instance , describes that process in his own case , in A Sort of Life . He hated gym , games , and the OTC at school ... instance espionage and war stories , are of course ambi- valent in their celebration of the adventurer's virtues ...
... instance , describes that process in his own case , in A Sort of Life . He hated gym , games , and the OTC at school ... instance espionage and war stories , are of course ambi- valent in their celebration of the adventurer's virtues ...
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... instance , we learn of Paul's debagging in Decline and Fall by means of the conversation between the two dons , so that the farcical action itself takes place in the background . Again , in Black Mischief , the Birth Control Pageant is ...
... instance , we learn of Paul's debagging in Decline and Fall by means of the conversation between the two dons , so that the farcical action itself takes place in the background . Again , in Black Mischief , the Birth Control Pageant is ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
Copyright | |
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