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Page 77
... certainly on , and Gog is certainly to do with it , as a man seeks for his own identity from some mytho- logical tradition . For instance , I do not understand why every child in this country is not given Geoffrey of Monmouth's History ...
... certainly on , and Gog is certainly to do with it , as a man seeks for his own identity from some mytho- logical tradition . For instance , I do not understand why every child in this country is not given Geoffrey of Monmouth's History ...
Page 97
... Certainly Pynchon seems to have indulged in a great deal of freewheeling improvisation in the early part of his novel , especially in the scenes dealing with Benny Profane , an amiable layabout looking for work in New York , and his ...
... Certainly Pynchon seems to have indulged in a great deal of freewheeling improvisation in the early part of his novel , especially in the scenes dealing with Benny Profane , an amiable layabout looking for work in New York , and his ...
Page 207
... certainly not interested in the slightest in writing fiction . Where the difficulty comes in is that ' novel ' and ' fiction ' are not synonymous . Certainly I write autobiography , and I write it in form of a novel . What I don't write ...
... certainly not interested in the slightest in writing fiction . Where the difficulty comes in is that ' novel ' and ' fiction ' are not synonymous . Certainly I write autobiography , and I write it in form of a novel . What I don't write ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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