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But The Images—the Paper Eye, The Stomach Like A...

the scene as if it were on stage. The word 'weep' adds to the deliberately formal quality. In Alamein to Zem Zem, Douglas writes : 'Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we......

One Seeks For The Cause Of This Deep-rooted Malignity. His

childhood was spent in genuine poverty, but not in desperate or even excep- tionally unhappy surroundings. The accident that destroyed his minor civil service career may have......