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Page 80
... reality - test as we do in everyday life . But something much more profound has happened . We do not reality - test be- cause , in part at least , we have ceased to feel we are separate from external reality . To some extent , we fuse ...
... reality - test as we do in everyday life . But something much more profound has happened . We do not reality - test be- cause , in part at least , we have ceased to feel we are separate from external reality . To some extent , we fuse ...
Page 81
... reality persists to some extent , but at the time we are able to give convic- tion , a " sense of reality " to the work we are reading . Dr. Weisman asks : Why do we not believe that the actor , in reality ( that is , from every point ...
... reality persists to some extent , but at the time we are able to give convic- tion , a " sense of reality " to the work we are reading . Dr. Weisman asks : Why do we not believe that the actor , in reality ( that is , from every point ...
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... reality into question is to question our own . Because these effects make me uncertain as to whether I am confronting a reality or a fiction , something to be or not to be in- trojected in a primitive way , I find my own position in reality ...
... reality into question is to question our own . Because these effects make me uncertain as to whether I am confronting a reality or a fiction , something to be or not to be in- trojected in a primitive way , I find my own position in reality ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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