Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904 to 1911Woolf's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. "He has a seemingly effortless way with words which is beautiful and spellbinding" (J. M. Edelstein, New Republic). Index; photographs. |
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Page 66
... mind in chaotic incomprehensibility . When later on in Ceylon I became an extremely incompetent shooter of big game and , in cutting up the animals killed by me , saw the disgusting , semi - digested contents of their upper intes- tines ...
... mind in chaotic incomprehensibility . When later on in Ceylon I became an extremely incompetent shooter of big game and , in cutting up the animals killed by me , saw the disgusting , semi - digested contents of their upper intes- tines ...
Page 129
... mind on the main business - in this case the villagers and the enquiry and attending on the periphery of my mind almost automatically with the routine stuff which the peons and clerks were continually putting on my table . That ...
... mind on the main business - in this case the villagers and the enquiry and attending on the periphery of my mind almost automatically with the routine stuff which the peons and clerks were continually putting on my table . That ...
Page 247
... mind . I saw a great deal of them all and went to the Russian Ballet and the Ring with them , and dined with Vanessa and Clive and with Virginia and Adrian , and stayed with Virginia in a house which she rented in Firle near Lewes . And ...
... mind . I saw a great deal of them all and went to the Russian Ballet and the Ring with them , and dined with Vanessa and Clive and with Virginia and Adrian , and stayed with Virginia in a house which she rented in Firle near Lewes . And ...
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