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... readers often dismiss mere reading almost contemptuously . Of course , make due allowance for their normal fits of peevishness at having spent so much of their lives sequestered from strenuous living by the intrusion of barriers of ...
... readers often dismiss mere reading almost contemptuously . Of course , make due allowance for their normal fits of peevishness at having spent so much of their lives sequestered from strenuous living by the intrusion of barriers of ...
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... reading as well as creative writing . Creative reading is selective reading . It is not slavishly bonded to literal interpretation . It knows when to scan and when to skip . Perhaps it is done best in collaboration , while your friend ...
... reading as well as creative writing . Creative reading is selective reading . It is not slavishly bonded to literal interpretation . It knows when to scan and when to skip . Perhaps it is done best in collaboration , while your friend ...
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... reading assiduously interrupted by a pompous nabob who demanded : " How can you , sir , so obviously advantaged , read such trash as seems to engross you ? " To which Belloc curtly replied : " Because , sir , I wrote it . " So if penny ...
... reading assiduously interrupted by a pompous nabob who demanded : " How can you , sir , so obviously advantaged , read such trash as seems to engross you ? " To which Belloc curtly replied : " Because , sir , I wrote it . " So if penny ...
Contents
Preface Foreword Poem Sonnet to Death Chapter I The Ferries at Bayhead Death as Natural Transition | 1 |
Last Things First Necessity of a Point of View | 11 |
God on Trial The Problem of Evil | 19 |
Copyright | |
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