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Page 298
... Darkness and the Light seems to have been conceived as an illustration of the aesthetic principles Stapledon had been discussing . 16 It is a fictional antidote both to the sort of escapism that would deny or ignore the omens for the ...
... Darkness and the Light seems to have been conceived as an illustration of the aesthetic principles Stapledon had been discussing . 16 It is a fictional antidote both to the sort of escapism that would deny or ignore the omens for the ...
Page 300
... darkness permits the reader to indulge the nightmare of catastrophe as the vision of the light encourages the daydream of universal renovation . Under the will for darkness future society is foreseen as a tyranny maintained by torture ...
... darkness permits the reader to indulge the nightmare of catastrophe as the vision of the light encourages the daydream of universal renovation . Under the will for darkness future society is foreseen as a tyranny maintained by torture ...
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... darkness can their hearts be effectually stirred by the vision of the light . Part Two of Darkness and the Light is an exorcism by which Stapledon readies his readers to accept Part Three not as a charming fancy but as a scenario of ...
... darkness can their hearts be effectually stirred by the vision of the light . Part Two of Darkness and the Light is an exorcism by which Stapledon readies his readers to accept Part Three not as a charming fancy but as a scenario of ...
Contents
SF in Mass Culture | 38 |
George Slusser Heinleins Perpetual Motion Fur Farm | 51 |
John Dean The Uses of Wilderness in American | 68 |
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