Something about Swans: EssaysUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1973 - 118 pàgines |
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Pàgina ix
... memory plays a rôle . As everyone knows , memory is a sifter , a shaper , a giver of form and emphasis . It may suppress , or even falsify , facts ; it may alter the event it recalls , without the mind's being aware of the alteration ...
... memory plays a rôle . As everyone knows , memory is a sifter , a shaper , a giver of form and emphasis . It may suppress , or even falsify , facts ; it may alter the event it recalls , without the mind's being aware of the alteration ...
Pàgina 24
... memory the setting may be , that we cannot repeat the experience by returning to the place . We cannot have again the first kiss in the moonlight beside a shimmering lake . An epiphany cannot , by its nature , be repeated . If we should ...
... memory the setting may be , that we cannot repeat the experience by returning to the place . We cannot have again the first kiss in the moonlight beside a shimmering lake . An epiphany cannot , by its nature , be repeated . If we should ...
Pàgina 96
... Memory of past experience changes the very quality of the present . But the memory works in both directions . It also works to enrich the sea . One becomes sharply aware by their very absence of the things belonging to it the smell of ...
... Memory of past experience changes the very quality of the present . But the memory works in both directions . It also works to enrich the sea . One becomes sharply aware by their very absence of the things belonging to it the smell of ...
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