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... lead . Its perfection is the result of a slow gestation , a transformation of low metals . It is only this base origin of gold that explains its symbolic equivalence with the basest thing of all , excrement , and all the efforts of ...
... lead . Its perfection is the result of a slow gestation , a transformation of low metals . It is only this base origin of gold that explains its symbolic equivalence with the basest thing of all , excrement , and all the efforts of ...
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... lead , which is always possible because , far from being its opposite , gold derives from lead ; and it is to lead that it owes that very property which enables it , beyond its apparent perfection , to be transmuted into its supposed ...
... lead , which is always possible because , far from being its opposite , gold derives from lead ; and it is to lead that it owes that very property which enables it , beyond its apparent perfection , to be transmuted into its supposed ...
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... ( lead ) within silver while wrongly , narcissistically , trusting to their own good fortune and merit . Making the right choice primarily means essentially taking one's time as Bassanio does , doubly aided , both by Antonio's ...
... ( lead ) within silver while wrongly , narcissistically , trusting to their own good fortune and merit . Making the right choice primarily means essentially taking one's time as Bassanio does , doubly aided , both by Antonio's ...
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Beyond Postmodernism | 1 |
A Note on the Wartime Writings | 13 |
The Problem of Aesthetic Value | 23 |
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