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The day of supernatural splendour and glory comes only after many days that are only natural , and of a neutral colour . It is watched and waited for , and when it comes is like a day of some great festival and rejoicing — the day when ...
The day of supernatural splendour and glory comes only after many days that are only natural , and of a neutral colour . It is watched and waited for , and when it comes is like a day of some great festival and rejoicing — the day when ...
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The more who come to build the faster the undermining . Let me first sketch the setting — the desert , the town , the people . If one comes to the Colorado Desert by car from Los Angeles , the direction from which most people come to it ...
The more who come to build the faster the undermining . Let me first sketch the setting — the desert , the town , the people . If one comes to the Colorado Desert by car from Los Angeles , the direction from which most people come to it ...
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In the dampness of the redwood groves , where sunlight , when it comes , is filtered through two hundred , three hundred feet , and more , of drooping fronds , young ferns uncoil and mountain sorrel spreads its white blossoms .
In the dampness of the redwood groves , where sunlight , when it comes , is filtered through two hundred , three hundred feet , and more , of drooping fronds , young ferns uncoil and mountain sorrel spreads its white blossoms .
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Contents
Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
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| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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