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... Swift is merely displaying the kind of humility that validates even the most uncompromising moral censure . Yet the book is his creation , and as the bee tells the spider , " if we may judge of the Liquor in the Vessel by what issues ...
... Swift is merely displaying the kind of humility that validates even the most uncompromising moral censure . Yet the book is his creation , and as the bee tells the spider , " if we may judge of the Liquor in the Vessel by what issues ...
Page 117
... Swift is not linear but labyrinthine ; the language is a multidirectional assault on the book that contains it . He writes “ by feeling the World's Pulse " ( T , 210 ) , but it is a pulse which drums incessantly in his own chest ...
... Swift is not linear but labyrinthine ; the language is a multidirectional assault on the book that contains it . He writes “ by feeling the World's Pulse " ( T , 210 ) , but it is a pulse which drums incessantly in his own chest ...
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... Swift himself are swallowed and dismembered . Its metaphors are not logical persuasions but per- ceptual events which enter to possess us . Swift's words empty us of the world by filling us with their own reverberations : “ she took the ...
... Swift himself are swallowed and dismembered . Its metaphors are not logical persuasions but per- ceptual events which enter to possess us . Swift's words empty us of the world by filling us with their own reverberations : “ she took the ...
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ONE Introduction | 3 |
the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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