Dear Colleague: Common and Uncommon ObservationsU of Minnesota Press - 223 Seiten |
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... writer, no matter how old, hope is belief in one more work yet to be written, another book that is somehow the capstone or distillation of all that has been written before. At the time I was finishing my autobiography (Who Am I?), I ...
... writer, no matter how old, hope is belief in one more work yet to be written, another book that is somehow the capstone or distillation of all that has been written before. At the time I was finishing my autobiography (Who Am I?), I ...
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... writes to the American poet Thomas Merton : “ Every time you speak of Nature , it appears to you as soothing , rich ... writing . “ Some macaques ( Macaca irus ) hold a rival under water for so long that it drowned . Some swimming birds ...
... writes to the American poet Thomas Merton : “ Every time you speak of Nature , it appears to you as soothing , rich ... writing . “ Some macaques ( Macaca irus ) hold a rival under water for so long that it drowned . Some swimming birds ...
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... writes John Updike . I enjoy the murmur of nature in a park , but also in a coffee shop , where the meaning of words is blurred and I can attend to just their familiar and reassuring sound . Articulate speech is out of place where ...
... writes John Updike . I enjoy the murmur of nature in a park , but also in a coffee shop , where the meaning of words is blurred and I can attend to just their familiar and reassuring sound . Articulate speech is out of place where ...
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... writes : “ There I stood now listening to the wind , a frog in my hands , as if locked in a cage .... A sour smell came from the swamps on the wooded shore . I clearly felt the frog trembling . . . . And then suddenly it peed . ” Human ...
... writes : “ There I stood now listening to the wind , a frog in my hands , as if locked in a cage .... A sour smell came from the swamps on the wooded shore . I clearly felt the frog trembling . . . . And then suddenly it peed . ” Human ...
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Inhalt
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Civilization and City | 20 |
Politics and Ideology | 33 |
Culture Society Work | 48 |
Home Rootedness Place | 58 |
Human Ties and Isolation | 67 |
Ancestors | 81 |
Sex | 84 |
Geography | 118 |
History | 131 |
Aesthetics | 134 |
Intellect | 147 |
Language | 161 |
Morality | 170 |
Religion | 191 |
Stages of Life | 203 |
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