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Page vii
... perhaps in his present state of competence , before some other specialists worry me out of the possibility of decision by reminding me that this me that this surgeon does not really know their important specialties . • I have heard a ...
... perhaps in his present state of competence , before some other specialists worry me out of the possibility of decision by reminding me that this me that this surgeon does not really know their important specialties . • I have heard a ...
Page viii
... perhaps more like the poet's , to make the past present . I have not tried to be a seventeenth - century reader of Paradise Lost . I have tried to accept my role as a twentieth - century reader who is a student of seventeenth - century ...
... perhaps more like the poet's , to make the past present . I have not tried to be a seventeenth - century reader of Paradise Lost . I have tried to accept my role as a twentieth - century reader who is a student of seventeenth - century ...
Page ix
... Perhaps I should say something about the order of these essays . This is the order in which they were conceived and written . It was mostly a matter of seeing problems and attempting solutions — with my solutions at their best providing ...
... Perhaps I should say something about the order of these essays . This is the order in which they were conceived and written . It was mostly a matter of seeing problems and attempting solutions — with my solutions at their best providing ...
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... perhaps more vigor than necessary . But the absurd is not a simple absolute . Above all , it is not static . There is a difference between Dog- berry's " write me down an ass " and Falstaff's " they hate us youth . " The degree of self ...
... perhaps more vigor than necessary . But the absurd is not a simple absolute . Above all , it is not static . There is a difference between Dog- berry's " write me down an ass " and Falstaff's " they hate us youth . " The degree of self ...
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