Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911The author's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. |
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... remembering accurately the sequence of events , the temporal perspective . I have several times been surprised and dismayed to find that a letter or diary proves that what I remember as happening in , say , 1908 really happened in 1910 ...
... remembering accurately the sequence of events , the temporal perspective . I have several times been surprised and dismayed to find that a letter or diary proves that what I remember as happening in , say , 1908 really happened in 1910 ...
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... remember , went to France . But there is nothing to say to you , nothing to tell you of except " events " . I neither read nor think nor - in the old way - feel . I can tell you that I rode 12 miles , after 58 GROWING.
... remember , went to France . But there is nothing to say to you , nothing to tell you of except " events " . I neither read nor think nor - in the old way - feel . I can tell you that I rode 12 miles , after 58 GROWING.
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... remember anything about leaving Jaffna or arriving in Kandy or the journey , which must have taken a whole day , except two or three hours in the middle of it , and those two or three hours I remember after 53 years as vividly as if ...
... remember anything about leaving Jaffna or arriving in Kandy or the journey , which must have taken a whole day , except two or three hours in the middle of it , and those two or three hours I remember after 53 years as vividly as if ...
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