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... words , one sees that they imply a reservation . More perhaps than any writer who has ever lived , Joyce lived almost entirely in a world of words , and , very often , of words as sounds , divorced , that is , from meaning . And every word ...
... words , one sees that they imply a reservation . More perhaps than any writer who has ever lived , Joyce lived almost entirely in a world of words , and , very often , of words as sounds , divorced , that is , from meaning . And every word ...
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... words are both pejorative and question- begging ; in no sense do they contain her , for the important thing is what ... words and the fine sentiments that inhere in words as to be incurably dishonest and therefore dangerous . THE ...
... words are both pejorative and question- begging ; in no sense do they contain her , for the important thing is what ... words and the fine sentiments that inhere in words as to be incurably dishonest and therefore dangerous . THE ...
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... words . As Frederic Henry says in A Farewell to Arms : I was always embarrassed by the words sacred , glorious , and sacrifice and the expression in vain . We had heard them , some- times standing in the rain almost out of earshot , so ...
... words . As Frederic Henry says in A Farewell to Arms : I was always embarrassed by the words sacred , glorious , and sacrifice and the expression in vain . We had heard them , some- times standing in the rain almost out of earshot , so ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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