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... perceptions accumulate at an intolerable velocity : " the least important of his memories was more minute and more vivid than our perception of physical pleasure or physical torment " ( 66 ) . " I alone , " he tells the narrator ...
... perceptions accumulate at an intolerable velocity : " the least important of his memories was more minute and more vivid than our perception of physical pleasure or physical torment " ( 66 ) . " I alone , " he tells the narrator ...
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... perception . The later temptations , which come to encompass all of earthly time and space , even less clearly represent opposing spaces within the world . For Paradise Regained takes place not in vast cosmic space but entirely in the ...
... perception . The later temptations , which come to encompass all of earthly time and space , even less clearly represent opposing spaces within the world . For Paradise Regained takes place not in vast cosmic space but entirely in the ...
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... perception mirrors the anxiety of a world where even Christ's disciples begin to doubt him during his absence in the wilderness ( " And as the days increas'd , increas'd thir doubt , " II , 12 ) . Christ , however , can expose Satan's ...
... perception mirrors the anxiety of a world where even Christ's disciples begin to doubt him during his absence in the wilderness ( " And as the days increas'd , increas'd thir doubt , " II , 12 ) . Christ , however , can expose Satan's ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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