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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... living in the present didn't oblige him to like the present . The book is also part polemic , part sottisier . It sets its face against false fashions and approved - of brutalities , against the coarsening and dehumanizing of ...
... living in the present didn't oblige him to like the present . The book is also part polemic , part sottisier . It sets its face against false fashions and approved - of brutalities , against the coarsening and dehumanizing of ...
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... living , and we hope that you will enjoy it . But it is our responsibility to warn you that LIFE CAN GO DOWN IN VALUE AS WELL AS UP , and the past is not a sure guide to the future . Living can be bad for your well - being and even lead ...
... living , and we hope that you will enjoy it . But it is our responsibility to warn you that LIFE CAN GO DOWN IN VALUE AS WELL AS UP , and the past is not a sure guide to the future . Living can be bad for your well - being and even lead ...
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... living in Hong Kong : the Chinese are served with single chopsticks whenever they eat crab , using the chopstick to push out the meat in the claws and the legs . Somewhere there must lurk a charitable thought , or a childish one ...
... living in Hong Kong : the Chinese are served with single chopsticks whenever they eat crab , using the chopstick to push out the meat in the claws and the legs . Somewhere there must lurk a charitable thought , or a childish one ...
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