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... fact that life has leading characters , plots , morals to be pointed , lessons to be learned , and most of all ... facts , although in the process the orga- nizing and clarifying power of art was forgone , and fiction was at the point of ...
... fact that life has leading characters , plots , morals to be pointed , lessons to be learned , and most of all ... facts , although in the process the orga- nizing and clarifying power of art was forgone , and fiction was at the point of ...
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... fact I had been unaware of the pattern's existence ; once appraised of it I was struck enough by the coincidence ( which I later came to regard as more inevitable than remarkable ) to examine those works by which I'd allegedly been ...
... fact I had been unaware of the pattern's existence ; once appraised of it I was struck enough by the coincidence ( which I later came to regard as more inevitable than remarkable ) to examine those works by which I'd allegedly been ...
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... fact , " all that remained of the Communist movement was a sorrowful rag - dead bones displayed with a sorrowful pathos once a Mayday in the slum square of a few large cities , by a handful of poor old gaf- fers and crones as nutty as ...
... fact , " all that remained of the Communist movement was a sorrowful rag - dead bones displayed with a sorrowful pathos once a Mayday in the slum square of a few large cities , by a handful of poor old gaf- fers and crones as nutty as ...
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