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Page 94
... Thought following thought , and step by step led on " ( I , 192 ) . To himself he muses , " now by some strong motion I am led / Into this Wilderness " ( I , 290-91 ) . It is the motion of his divine mind in the maze of human flesh ...
... Thought following thought , and step by step led on " ( I , 192 ) . To himself he muses , " now by some strong motion I am led / Into this Wilderness " ( I , 290-91 ) . It is the motion of his divine mind in the maze of human flesh ...
Page 108
... thought to all thought , for the Tale unfolds its thought in a vacuum . In typically disarming fashion , Swift disguises his own obsession with the book's demented form - he remarks innocently that " some Authors inclose Digressions in ...
... thought to all thought , for the Tale unfolds its thought in a vacuum . In typically disarming fashion , Swift disguises his own obsession with the book's demented form - he remarks innocently that " some Authors inclose Digressions in ...
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... thought . From every object , from every thought , space extends . And every object of thought slides and plunges in space . . . . Space is therefore a sheet of still water , on which , in circles , is written the undulatory and ...
... thought . From every object , from every thought , space extends . And every object of thought slides and plunges in space . . . . Space is therefore a sheet of still water , on which , in circles , is written the undulatory and ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
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