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Page 225
... imaginative sympathy . Nor has he in Dead Man Leading ( 1937 ) . Harry Johnson is an explorer who deserts the ... imagination . Every so often in Dead Man Leading , however , Pritchett allows the comic writer in him to take over ...
... imaginative sympathy . Nor has he in Dead Man Leading ( 1937 ) . Harry Johnson is an explorer who deserts the ... imagination . Every so often in Dead Man Leading , however , Pritchett allows the comic writer in him to take over ...
Page 242
... imagination , for the creative imagination is the quality he most values in human beings . And the creative action of the imagination is un- ceasing and continuous , each man trying , in Cary's words , ' to create a universe which suits ...
... imagination , for the creative imagination is the quality he most values in human beings . And the creative action of the imagination is un- ceasing and continuous , each man trying , in Cary's words , ' to create a universe which suits ...
Page 319
... imagination — indeed , everything and anything except me . And presumably the hero is nameless for the same reason as the central character in Kafka's The Trial is known only as K : to reinforce the suggestion not only of invisibility ...
... imagination — indeed , everything and anything except me . And presumably the hero is nameless for the same reason as the central character in Kafka's The Trial is known only as K : to reinforce the suggestion not only of invisibility ...
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