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... human identity : And looking round on every side beheld A pathless Desert , dusk with horrid shades ; The way he came not having mark'd , return Was difficult , by human steps untrod ( I , 295-98 ) For forty days Christ wanders through ...
... human identity : And looking round on every side beheld A pathless Desert , dusk with horrid shades ; The way he came not having mark'd , return Was difficult , by human steps untrod ( I , 295-98 ) For forty days Christ wanders through ...
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... human language . In its original unity , the word occurs at both the beginning and the end of history , for " the end is the beginning born knowing " ( TX , 10 ) . To his readers ' discomfort , Burroughs does not take history on faith ...
... human language . In its original unity , the word occurs at both the beginning and the end of history , for " the end is the beginning born knowing " ( TX , 10 ) . To his readers ' discomfort , Burroughs does not take history on faith ...
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... human body , are for him overburdened containers of aggressive energy : 6. Burroughs believes the human organism can rapidly evolve beyond the need for its slavish fleshly structures ; his vision is of consciousness freed from the flesh ...
... human body , are for him overburdened containers of aggressive energy : 6. Burroughs believes the human organism can rapidly evolve beyond the need for its slavish fleshly structures ; his vision is of consciousness freed from the flesh ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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