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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... dream generated within , but involuntary hypnopaedia , ' fraudulent tempta- tion ' , seduction from without . When comforting Eve ( who had gone some way to comforting herself : ' how glad I waked / To find this but a dream ! ' ) , Adam ...
... dream generated within , but involuntary hypnopaedia , ' fraudulent tempta- tion ' , seduction from without . When comforting Eve ( who had gone some way to comforting herself : ' how glad I waked / To find this but a dream ! ' ) , Adam ...
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... dream settles and sets into its written record , as though it were no dream but a minor piece of recent history . Schopenhauer has claimed that when in some ghastly dream , we reach the moment of maximum horror , it awakes us , thereby ...
... dream settles and sets into its written record , as though it were no dream but a minor piece of recent history . Schopenhauer has claimed that when in some ghastly dream , we reach the moment of maximum horror , it awakes us , thereby ...
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A Memoir Dennis Joseph Enright. It must be a dream , a bad dream . ' A masterpiece ... it has wit , erudition , golden dialogue ' ( Observer ) ; ' Beautifully written ... there is not a single ugly or dead sentence here ' ( Sunday Times ) ...
A Memoir Dennis Joseph Enright. It must be a dream , a bad dream . ' A masterpiece ... it has wit , erudition , golden dialogue ' ( Observer ) ; ' Beautifully written ... there is not a single ugly or dead sentence here ' ( Sunday Times ) ...
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