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... observer , and it is hard not to use such phrases without an implied sneer or note of condemnation . Yet this is not at all my intention ; I should like , rather , to maintain a difficult balance between the position that unthinkingly ...
... observer , and it is hard not to use such phrases without an implied sneer or note of condemnation . Yet this is not at all my intention ; I should like , rather , to maintain a difficult balance between the position that unthinkingly ...
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... observer . Because of his lack of mythic or obsessive preoccupations , Powell's fiction is less clearly patterned or structured than Waugh's . Both novelists , of course , owe a debt to Proust : it was evident in the chapter headings of ...
... observer . Because of his lack of mythic or obsessive preoccupations , Powell's fiction is less clearly patterned or structured than Waugh's . Both novelists , of course , owe a debt to Proust : it was evident in the chapter headings of ...
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... observer . We can compare it with a passage from Lucky Jim . Jim Dixon is having breakfast in his digs , and is joined by his tough , silent friend Bill Atkinson : He halted contemptuously at his chair , clicking his tongue and sighing ...
... observer . We can compare it with a passage from Lucky Jim . Jim Dixon is having breakfast in his digs , and is joined by his tough , silent friend Bill Atkinson : He halted contemptuously at his chair , clicking his tongue and sighing ...
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Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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