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Page 80
... death and the death concludes a life that is imaginary only , however deeply we may receive it . On these imaginary and tragic lives and deaths we feed and our own lives grow more intelligible to us as we accept this nourishment . Not ...
... death and the death concludes a life that is imaginary only , however deeply we may receive it . On these imaginary and tragic lives and deaths we feed and our own lives grow more intelligible to us as we accept this nourishment . Not ...
Page 83
... death's ' twilight kingdom ' . With Macbeth suffering brings knowledge , not moral growth , alike to him and to us . His vivid , tense imagination brings home his situation , recording the dreams that punctuate pain's slow anaesthesia ...
... death's ' twilight kingdom ' . With Macbeth suffering brings knowledge , not moral growth , alike to him and to us . His vivid , tense imagination brings home his situation , recording the dreams that punctuate pain's slow anaesthesia ...
Page 93
... death - endings of tragedy but the endings of quarrels , of misunderstandings , of sorrows . Such deaths as we have are casual , without significance , for these plays are not about death . If death was the revealer of values in the ...
... death - endings of tragedy but the endings of quarrels , of misunderstandings , of sorrows . Such deaths as we have are casual , without significance , for these plays are not about death . If death was the revealer of values in the ...
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LIST OF FELLOWS | 7 |
OFFICERS AND COUNCIL July | 11 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir H I Bell | 15 |
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