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... universe : " The universe ( which others call the Library ) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite num- ber of hexagonal galleries , with vast air shafts between , surrounded by very low railings " ( 51 ) . Thus revealing in ...
... universe : " The universe ( which others call the Library ) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite num- ber of hexagonal galleries , with vast air shafts between , surrounded by very low railings " ( 51 ) . Thus revealing in ...
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... universe trembling in our minds . The initially external and objective narrative was a delusion , for the story succeeds quite apart from our detached interest in the Library as a metaphor . It is we , not the universe , who succumb to ...
... universe trembling in our minds . The initially external and objective narrative was a delusion , for the story succeeds quite apart from our detached interest in the Library as a metaphor . It is we , not the universe , who succumb to ...
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... universe . " " Notes on Burroughs , " The Nation ( 28 Dec. 1964 ) , p . 517. Mc- Luhan's phrase accurately describes Brown's Love's Body and perhaps Susan Sontag's novels , but Burroughs believes the body is already the vessel for a ...
... universe . " " Notes on Burroughs , " The Nation ( 28 Dec. 1964 ) , p . 517. Mc- Luhan's phrase accurately describes Brown's Love's Body and perhaps Susan Sontag's novels , but Burroughs believes the body is already the vessel for a ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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