Something about Swans: EssaysUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1973 - 118 pàgines |
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Pàgina 80
... Oatman , as I had come several times before , for a certain kind of refreshment . It is a good place for my kind of idling — rambling about looking for rocks and birds and flowers , or gathering bits of geological and mineral and ...
... Oatman , as I had come several times before , for a certain kind of refreshment . It is a good place for my kind of idling — rambling about looking for rocks and birds and flowers , or gathering bits of geological and mineral and ...
Pàgina 88
... Oatman , the only one we can experience , has no history but the thinnest sort . It has little accumulation of human experience , none of mythology , nothing therefore to have been clothed in poetic vesture . To an old resident of the ...
... Oatman , the only one we can experience , has no history but the thinnest sort . It has little accumulation of human experience , none of mythology , nothing therefore to have been clothed in poetic vesture . To an old resident of the ...
Pàgina 89
... Oatman has , for wonder , its desert contraries- the conserving toughness of root , stem , and seed through long seasons of drought , the renewing prodigality of fragile bloom at the touch of water in a brief and occasional spring ...
... Oatman has , for wonder , its desert contraries- the conserving toughness of root , stem , and seed through long seasons of drought , the renewing prodigality of fragile bloom at the touch of water in a brief and occasional spring ...
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