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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... someone who could never find the right word . Pascal talks about religion . Strange , then , that he should be so highly regarded by the laity and thought to be so astonishingly modern . But in many of his Pensées he does appear to be ...
... someone who could never find the right word . Pascal talks about religion . Strange , then , that he should be so highly regarded by the laity and thought to be so astonishingly modern . But in many of his Pensées he does appear to be ...
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... someone , and never failed to be greatly impressed when anyone uttered a prejudice in her hearing . She had come to associate prejudice with identity . You could not be a someone without disliking things . ' How demeaning , that you can ...
... someone , and never failed to be greatly impressed when anyone uttered a prejudice in her hearing . She had come to associate prejudice with identity . You could not be a someone without disliking things . ' How demeaning , that you can ...
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... Someone at The Oldie was thoughtful enough to insert ' [ sic ] ' after ' Enright ' , but not everybody understands what sic in square brackets betokens . My horoscope , given to benign protectiveness against a hostile world , has gone ...
... Someone at The Oldie was thoughtful enough to insert ' [ sic ] ' after ' Enright ' , but not everybody understands what sic in square brackets betokens . My horoscope , given to benign protectiveness against a hostile world , has gone ...
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