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... dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel " ( 240 ) . After this preface to the parable “ Ragnarök , ” the narrator recounts a dream in which the gods of Olympus return after long absence to be greeted by human applause ...
... dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel " ( 240 ) . After this preface to the parable “ Ragnarök , ” the narrator recounts a dream in which the gods of Olympus return after long absence to be greeted by human applause ...
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... Dreams . " The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep " ( Wordsworth ) . " My dreams are of a field afar ” ( Hous- man ) . To breathe the space of the fields is to sleep and dream . “ On a half - reap'd furrow sound asleep , / Drows ...
... Dreams . " The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep " ( Wordsworth ) . " My dreams are of a field afar ” ( Hous- man ) . To breathe the space of the fields is to sleep and dream . “ On a half - reap'd furrow sound asleep , / Drows ...
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... dream . And the field is his dream , or his new body , the dream body . The dreaming body and its house and cave - this is the field folded . It is as wide as all distance , for the sun is its hearth and the tent of the sky over the ...
... dream . And the field is his dream , or his new body , the dream body . The dreaming body and its house and cave - this is the field folded . It is as wide as all distance , for the sun is its hearth and the tent of the sky over the ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
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