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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... face of man . I cannot comprehend how clean hands could touch a newspaper without a convulsion of disgust . ' Compare this with a congratulatory headline in The Times , 8 March 2002 : ' We're a nation of newspaper addicts . ' ' Those ...
... face of man . I cannot comprehend how clean hands could touch a newspaper without a convulsion of disgust . ' Compare this with a congratulatory headline in The Times , 8 March 2002 : ' We're a nation of newspaper addicts . ' ' Those ...
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... face - saver ) since they assume that the common man wouldn't recognize irony if it shone right in his face . In fact language has here prevailed , with ease , over its users and abusers . But talk of the dishonesty and deceptiveness of ...
... face - saver ) since they assume that the common man wouldn't recognize irony if it shone right in his face . In fact language has here prevailed , with ease , over its users and abusers . But talk of the dishonesty and deceptiveness of ...
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... face . Some days later she handed the book back , a stiff , displeased look on her face , a look I hadn't seen for a long time . I had broken an unspoken but fundamental rule : never speak of personal matters , keep yourself to yourself ...
... face . Some days later she handed the book back , a stiff , displeased look on her face , a look I hadn't seen for a long time . I had broken an unspoken but fundamental rule : never speak of personal matters , keep yourself to yourself ...
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