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... space ; but the an- guished space of fallen perception is the limited measure of Satan's alienation : " Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night / To mortal men , hee with his horrid crew / Lay vanquisht , rolling in the fiery ...
... space ; but the an- guished space of fallen perception is the limited measure of Satan's alienation : " Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night / To mortal men , hee with his horrid crew / Lay vanquisht , rolling in the fiery ...
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... space , even less clearly represent opposing spaces within the world . For Paradise Regained takes place not in vast cosmic space but entirely in the fallen world of flesh : its internal and external landscapes are created by the limits ...
... space , even less clearly represent opposing spaces within the world . For Paradise Regained takes place not in vast cosmic space but entirely in the fallen world of flesh : its internal and external landscapes are created by the limits ...
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... space . Silence , for Burroughs , is unspeakable . To his own vision of infinite space , Burroughs deliberately op- poses the need to enclose radical experience in protective frames . " He himself prefers an image of the astronaut's ...
... space . Silence , for Burroughs , is unspeakable . To his own vision of infinite space , Burroughs deliberately op- poses the need to enclose radical experience in protective frames . " He himself prefers an image of the astronaut's ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
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