Something about Swans: EssaysUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1973 - 118 pàgines |
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Pàgina 11
... sounds , but few certain — perhaps sandhill cranes , a coyote , a screech owl ; cer- tainly a great horned owl ; and unmistakably , though I had never heard them before , trumpeter swans . They ... sound , one I was hardly entitled.
... sounds , but few certain — perhaps sandhill cranes , a coyote , a screech owl ; cer- tainly a great horned owl ; and unmistakably , though I had never heard them before , trumpeter swans . They ... sound , one I was hardly entitled.
Pàgina 41
... sounds as come are startling and distinct . The silence itself becomes a presence , as if it had a sound of its own beyond the utmost reach of our hearing . I remember as a small child sitting alone in an attic bedroom . No morning sounds ...
... sounds as come are startling and distinct . The silence itself becomes a presence , as if it had a sound of its own beyond the utmost reach of our hearing . I remember as a small child sitting alone in an attic bedroom . No morning sounds ...
Pàgina 93
... sound of fog - horns on the bay , mournful , faintly yet pleasurably ominous ; the startlingly near sound of unseen bell- buoys , impersonal , insistent ; the measured roar and subsidence of the surf below the cliff road , the sound ...
... sound of fog - horns on the bay , mournful , faintly yet pleasurably ominous ; the startlingly near sound of unseen bell- buoys , impersonal , insistent ; the measured roar and subsidence of the surf below the cliff road , the sound ...
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