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So , outward circumstance and inward state – a state prepared for by a myriad interconnections of temperament , experience , and memory — made for each of us , , in our discovery of the whistlers , a new experience that was invested ...
So , outward circumstance and inward state – a state prepared for by a myriad interconnections of temperament , experience , and memory — made for each of us , , in our discovery of the whistlers , a new experience that was invested ...
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The experience must be subtler , we suppose , for the scientist finding a rare first than for the beginner in observation , subtler still if the first is the first not just for him but for the world . Think of the richness of Darwin's ...
The experience must be subtler , we suppose , for the scientist finding a rare first than for the beginner in observation , subtler still if the first is the first not just for him but for the world . Think of the richness of Darwin's ...
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We move from experience to experience , weaving the intricate web of discovery and recognition by which we become a part of the world around us and it of us . Yet , though an experience can never be repeated in its particularity ...
We move from experience to experience , weaving the intricate web of discovery and recognition by which we become a part of the world around us and it of us . Yet , though an experience can never be repeated in its particularity ...
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Contents
Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
Copyright | |
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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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