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Page 106
... lives of his grand- parents and their families and relations , pioneers in the opening up of Wisconsin in the middle years of last century . In a way , it is history become myth , for very early on in the novel we meet Alwyn Tower , the ...
... lives of his grand- parents and their families and relations , pioneers in the opening up of Wisconsin in the middle years of last century . In a way , it is history become myth , for very early on in the novel we meet Alwyn Tower , the ...
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... lives were eternally balanced upon a pedestal below which was an abyss that I could not name . Within that invisible tension my father knew the moves of an intricate game that he expected everybody else to play . ' Elsewhere Lacy ...
... lives were eternally balanced upon a pedestal below which was an abyss that I could not name . Within that invisible tension my father knew the moves of an intricate game that he expected everybody else to play . ' Elsewhere Lacy ...
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... live lives based on selected fictions . Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities , as we like to think . Thus every interpretation is based upon a unique position . Two paces west ...
... live lives based on selected fictions . Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities , as we like to think . Thus every interpretation is based upon a unique position . Two paces west ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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