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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... doubt I have mentioned elsewhere my favourite home - made pun . When Faust is lamenting the disappearance of his paramour , Helen ( lately of Troy ) , Mephistopheles suggests , with the flippancy he deploys to belittle human ambitions ...
... doubt I have mentioned elsewhere my favourite home - made pun . When Faust is lamenting the disappearance of his paramour , Helen ( lately of Troy ) , Mephistopheles suggests , with the flippancy he deploys to belittle human ambitions ...
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... death , that I might be provided for ' . The occupant of the coveted position promptly died . And the consequent sense of God's wrath , along with some doubt as to God's existence , unfitted Cowper , then in his 25 INJURY TIME.
... death , that I might be provided for ' . The occupant of the coveted position promptly died . And the consequent sense of God's wrath , along with some doubt as to God's existence , unfitted Cowper , then in his 25 INJURY TIME.
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... doubt the thought crossed Nietzsche's mind as he drew up his advice : when you go among women don't forget to take your whip with you . An actress whose husband has gone off with another actress , we hear , is suffering trauma . When ...
... doubt the thought crossed Nietzsche's mind as he drew up his advice : when you go among women don't forget to take your whip with you . An actress whose husband has gone off with another actress , we hear , is suffering trauma . When ...
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