Something about Swans: EssaysUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1973 - 118 pàgines |
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Pàgina 53
... reach for the top , always just beyond reach , is the music of Shakespeare's time , not of ours . We seem to prefer middle C. At the close of the essay in which Eiseley uses the metaphor of man as a spider at the center of his web , he ...
... reach for the top , always just beyond reach , is the music of Shakespeare's time , not of ours . We seem to prefer middle C. At the close of the essay in which Eiseley uses the metaphor of man as a spider at the center of his web , he ...
Pàgina 89
... reach of the imagination , its unobtrusive and mostly illegible signs of earlier men who , like the desert lilies , the rock wrens , and the jack rabbits , lived for countless generations on its scant provisions and its seldom rains ...
... reach of the imagination , its unobtrusive and mostly illegible signs of earlier men who , like the desert lilies , the rock wrens , and the jack rabbits , lived for countless generations on its scant provisions and its seldom rains ...
Pàgina 98
... reach , can be either so terrifying or so liberating , is that it so nearly destroys the sensory context we move about in every day . We are forced to be just ourselves , alone . Bruegel and the Pelican One August evening I sat on.
... reach , can be either so terrifying or so liberating , is that it so nearly destroys the sensory context we move about in every day . We are forced to be just ourselves , alone . Bruegel and the Pelican One August evening I sat on.
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