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Page 37
... means and end of every endeavour . Our world today is less sure of itself and more modest , perhaps because it has ... mean that its life is intimately linked to that of a bygone society . If it does manage it , on the other hand , a new ...
... means and end of every endeavour . Our world today is less sure of itself and more modest , perhaps because it has ... mean that its life is intimately linked to that of a bygone society . If it does manage it , on the other hand , a new ...
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... means not the places named in a novel , like Chicago , let us say . Environment refers instead to the places filled ... mean the limits of my world ' ( 5.6 ) . The mention of Wittgenstein is not fortuitious , for both Pynchon and Barth ...
... means not the places named in a novel , like Chicago , let us say . Environment refers instead to the places filled ... mean the limits of my world ' ( 5.6 ) . The mention of Wittgenstein is not fortuitious , for both Pynchon and Barth ...
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... mean I'm say- ing ? ' he had asked his mother in a fright , and she had said , ' You know perfectly well what it means , after all , you're almost eight years old . ' For months after that , he had avoided saying gasoline station for ...
... mean I'm say- ing ? ' he had asked his mother in a fright , and she had said , ' You know perfectly well what it means , after all , you're almost eight years old . ' For months after that , he had avoided saying gasoline station for ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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