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... things as he makes fun of ; and the things he loves are specifically the things of the old , pre - 1914 , Kipling England . For instance he is intensely excited by the building in which he receives his training , because it is a former ...
... things as he makes fun of ; and the things he loves are specifically the things of the old , pre - 1914 , Kipling England . For instance he is intensely excited by the building in which he receives his training , because it is a former ...
Page 141
... things that happened to him , was something he'd rather have than not ยท have . . . It was one more argument to support his theory that nice things are nicer than nasty ones . ( p . 140 ) This line of thought , deriving from the moral ...
... things that happened to him , was something he'd rather have than not ยท have . . . It was one more argument to support his theory that nice things are nicer than nasty ones . ( p . 140 ) This line of thought , deriving from the moral ...
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... things ; and that his sense of what was funny had been limited by ' my tender political conscience ' . But now , he said , he had begun to find Evelyn Waugh funny : ' Evelyn Waugh makes fun of things I feel strongly about , but then I ...
... things ; and that his sense of what was funny had been limited by ' my tender political conscience ' . But now , he said , he had begun to find Evelyn Waugh funny : ' Evelyn Waugh makes fun of things I feel strongly about , but then I ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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