The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Sven-Erik Täckmark |
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... Foreign Office official that it would be to the national advantage if I were transferred from one ' res- erved occupation ' to another . The idea , it seemed , was that I should travel by plane from Leuchars , in Fife , to Stockholm ...
... Foreign Office official that it would be to the national advantage if I were transferred from one ' res- erved occupation ' to another . The idea , it seemed , was that I should travel by plane from Leuchars , in Fife , to Stockholm ...
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... foreign tongues , as opposed to his familiarity with the master- pieces of European literature , we may find ourselves at sea , not least because we are faced by John Cowper's own reiterated belittlement of his skill as a linguist ...
... foreign tongues , as opposed to his familiarity with the master- pieces of European literature , we may find ourselves at sea , not least because we are faced by John Cowper's own reiterated belittlement of his skill as a linguist ...
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... foreign languages I have ever or will ever or can ever even so much as try to learn ' Droog ' sounds like evil doesn't it far more so than ' mal ' or Kakoç or ' evil ' ( I don't know the German for ' evil ' ! ) . I think drwg pronounced ...
... foreign languages I have ever or will ever or can ever even so much as try to learn ' Droog ' sounds like evil doesn't it far more so than ' mal ' or Kakoç or ' evil ' ( I don't know the German for ' evil ' ! ) . I think drwg pronounced ...
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