Injury Time: A MemoirPimlico, 2003 - 183 Seiten D.J. Enright died soon after putting the finishing touches to this memoir and commonplace book in which he muses upon his own condition and that of the world he knows he is leaving. With humanity and wit, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and the English language. |
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... asked too much ? Did they expect that knowledge would fend off age ? Or preserve their health ? Or keep their memory ... asking too much of them ? Or has some different , darker knowledge taken them over ? A sense of the absurd , say ...
... asked too much ? Did they expect that knowledge would fend off age ? Or preserve their health ? Or keep their memory ... asking too much of them ? Or has some different , darker knowledge taken them over ? A sense of the absurd , say ...
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... asked in class and he came up with the correct answer , Jesus ' , the master misheard it as Jeeves ' , and he was beaten for irreverence . - During that same interview Henry Green was asked what he thought of the idea that his work was ...
... asked in class and he came up with the correct answer , Jesus ' , the master misheard it as Jeeves ' , and he was beaten for irreverence . - During that same interview Henry Green was asked what he thought of the idea that his work was ...
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A Memoir Dennis Joseph Enright. officer interviewing a promising recruit in 1942. Asked what languages he knew , the recruit said that besides speaking several languages he could read hieroglyphics . ' What are hieroglyphics ? ' asked ...
A Memoir Dennis Joseph Enright. officer interviewing a promising recruit in 1942. Asked what languages he knew , the recruit said that besides speaking several languages he could read hieroglyphics . ' What are hieroglyphics ? ' asked ...
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