Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 57
... interest of absent friends . Perhaps the journal - keeper has an exaggerated interest in facts and occur- rences . Almost certainly the autobiographer wishes to get in first with posterity . But whether what is produced is a diary , or ...
... interest of absent friends . Perhaps the journal - keeper has an exaggerated interest in facts and occur- rences . Almost certainly the autobiographer wishes to get in first with posterity . But whether what is produced is a diary , or ...
Page 79
... interest is not in literature nor the literary . It is in the " whys " and " hows ” of life itself , in every varied aspect of nature , in the thoughts and experiences and opinions of other men as they elucidate for him the mysterious ...
... interest is not in literature nor the literary . It is in the " whys " and " hows ” of life itself , in every varied aspect of nature , in the thoughts and experiences and opinions of other men as they elucidate for him the mysterious ...
Page 139
... interest us ; if he recognizably , while abandoning every attempt to impress , and seeking first of all to please , speaks out of varied , discursive interest in whatever is human , he catches our attention . If he does more than that ...
... interest us ; if he recognizably , while abandoning every attempt to impress , and seeking first of all to please , speaks out of varied , discursive interest in whatever is human , he catches our attention . If he does more than that ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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