An Angel at My Table: The Complete AutobiographyAutobiografie van de Nieuwzeelandse schrijfster die na een reeks moeilijke jaren haar wil om te schrijven zag overwinnen. |
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... John Forrest , glistening with newly applied Freud , took note of what I said and did , and suddenly I'd put a glazed look in my eye , as if I were in a dream , and begin to relate a fantasy as if I experienced it as a reality . I'd ...
... John Forrest , glistening with newly applied Freud , took note of what I said and did , and suddenly I'd put a glazed look in my eye , as if I were in a dream , and begin to relate a fantasy as if I experienced it as a reality . I'd ...
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... John Forrest : beginning , ' I am deeply grieved to learn of the shocking bereavement you and your family have sustained ' and ending , ' Yours very sincerely , John Forrest . ' I remember the complete letter for the shock of its ...
... John Forrest : beginning , ' I am deeply grieved to learn of the shocking bereavement you and your family have sustained ' and ending , ' Yours very sincerely , John Forrest . ' I remember the complete letter for the shock of its ...
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... John Forrest was putting language to good use : he was trying to escape from the several women students who had formed romantic attachments to him ! Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence ; language may be almost as effective . I ...
... John Forrest was putting language to good use : he was trying to escape from the several women students who had formed romantic attachments to him ! Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence ; language may be almost as effective . I ...
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In the Second Place | 7 |
In Velvet Gown | 10 |
The Railway People | 14 |
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