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... Studs Lonigan Farrell prefixed a quotation from Plato which seems to sum up his point of view exactly : ' Except in the case of some rarely gifted nature there never will be a good man who has not from his childhood been used to play ...
... Studs Lonigan Farrell prefixed a quotation from Plato which seems to sum up his point of view exactly : ' Except in the case of some rarely gifted nature there never will be a good man who has not from his childhood been used to play ...
Page 150
... Studs is kissing goodbye is St Patrick's Grammar School , a jailhouse which might just as well have had barred windows ' . The novel opens , then , with Studs's liberation from school ; but not from the Church , and this is so even ...
... Studs is kissing goodbye is St Patrick's Grammar School , a jailhouse which might just as well have had barred windows ' . The novel opens , then , with Studs's liberation from school ; but not from the Church , and this is so even ...
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... Studs Lonigan , finally rejects him after he has picked up venereal disease from a tart but whose memory haunts him ... Studs is shown simply as the product and the victim of a corrupt and vicious social order which must be destroyed ...
... Studs Lonigan , finally rejects him after he has picked up venereal disease from a tart but whose memory haunts him ... Studs is shown simply as the product and the victim of a corrupt and vicious social order which must be destroyed ...
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