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Page 251
... narrator dismisses each image in turn as “ mere high - sounding , meaningless noise " ( p . 20 ) . The traditional myths could neither give shape to his experiences nor help convey them to others . Beyond their failure to concretize his ...
... narrator dismisses each image in turn as “ mere high - sounding , meaningless noise " ( p . 20 ) . The traditional myths could neither give shape to his experiences nor help convey them to others . Beyond their failure to concretize his ...
Page 259
... narrator will observe that the First Men had failed to negotiate difficulties that a later stage handles easily . But occasionally analepsis will suggest the opposite and find a virtue in the earlier limitations . Thus as the Third Men ...
... narrator will observe that the First Men had failed to negotiate difficulties that a later stage handles easily . But occasionally analepsis will suggest the opposite and find a virtue in the earlier limitations . Thus as the Third Men ...
Page 289
... narrator to the inhuman actions of Captain Vere amounts to an acquiescence to injustice . When the narrator merely suspects that John has murdered the constable Smithson , " the possibility that flashed upon me , " he says , " was too ...
... narrator to the inhuman actions of Captain Vere amounts to an acquiescence to injustice . When the narrator merely suspects that John has murdered the constable Smithson , " the possibility that flashed upon me , " he says , " was too ...
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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