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... experience of life , experience as an important civil servant , as a man who delighted in the social pleasures of the hunting field , cards , and the table , as a magazine editor and highly professional man of letters , as an ...
... experience of life , experience as an important civil servant , as a man who delighted in the social pleasures of the hunting field , cards , and the table , as a magazine editor and highly professional man of letters , as an ...
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... experienced is bound to and re- capitulates moments of similar experience in the past through the links of association . Here Virginia Woolf is constantly doing on a small scale what Proust did in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu . What ...
... experienced is bound to and re- capitulates moments of similar experience in the past through the links of association . Here Virginia Woolf is constantly doing on a small scale what Proust did in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu . What ...
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... experience in these words : ' There is no illusory sense of understanding - only the profound realization that Mystery is . ' For Lawrence too the great fact of existence was that mystery is . The mystery was not to be apprehended or ...
... experience in these words : ' There is no illusory sense of understanding - only the profound realization that Mystery is . ' For Lawrence too the great fact of existence was that mystery is . The mystery was not to be apprehended or ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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