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... have been intentionally introduced , should be merely felt as an indefinable quality , so to speak a timbre , of what is in other respects ordinary speech . 495916 INTRODUCTION I THE Ballet of the Nations , which constitutes.
... have been intentionally introduced , should be merely felt as an indefinable quality , so to speak a timbre , of what is in other respects ordinary speech . 495916 INTRODUCTION I THE Ballet of the Nations , which constitutes.
Page vii
... Nations , which constitutes the nucleus of the following drama , was written , in narrative shape , at Whitsuntide of the first year of the war ; and published that same Christmas as a picture book in collaboration with Mr. Maxwell ...
... Nations , which constitutes the nucleus of the following drama , was written , in narrative shape , at Whitsuntide of the first year of the war ; and published that same Christmas as a picture book in collaboration with Mr. Maxwell ...
Page viii
... Nations , those cinematograph and gramophone records of private realities , which the Waster of All Kinds of Virtue revealed as a favour to the Ages - to - Come , and that fatuous sycophant of his , the classic Muse of History . After ...
... Nations , those cinematograph and gramophone records of private realities , which the Waster of All Kinds of Virtue revealed as a favour to the Ages - to - Come , and that fatuous sycophant of his , the classic Muse of History . After ...
Page xv
... Nations and what it stands for . I have become aware that even in its earliest fragmentary published version , it has offended some of the people I can least endure offending . And even if they had not told me , I should know wherein ...
... Nations and what it stands for . I have become aware that even in its earliest fragmentary published version , it has offended some of the people I can least endure offending . And even if they had not told me , I should know wherein ...
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... Nations , with little to choose between them , join hands in imbecile , abominable obedience to Satan's fiddling ... Nation , especially my own , these convictions concerning the war's origins and results , these judgments of its moral ...
... Nations , with little to choose between them , join hands in imbecile , abominable obedience to Satan's fiddling ... Nation , especially my own , these convictions concerning the war's origins and results , these judgments of its moral ...
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2ND VOICE Adventure Adversary æsthetic AGES-TO-COME altruism Ballet Master Death become belief belligerent Bertrand Russell Brachycephalous Brobdingnag Cæsarea called cinema shows creatures dance dangerous dear Clio decent Delusion and Confusion desire emotional enemy evil existence eyes fact feeling friends future German Gog and Magog gramophone wheezes habits hand happens harmonium Hatred hence Heroism honour horror human Idealism implies Indignation individual IST VOICE Justice kind larning less look Lord Satan man's mankind means merely mind moral moralists moreover Muse of History Nations nature neighbours never once one's Orchestra ourselves passions Patriotism peace perhaps persons play poor preference present qualities Reality reason recognize religion require result Romain Rolland sacrifice self-sacrifice sense side soul spiritual suffering sure Themistocles things thought tion truth turn war's Waste Waster Widow Fear words writing