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My favorite one , up to now , had been the one at Quzel Falls in the Wild Basin in the Colorado Rockies where else should an ouzel be if not at his own falls ? I was to find my own at Granite Ranch . I knew there should be one on Swift ...
My favorite one , up to now , had been the one at Quzel Falls in the Wild Basin in the Colorado Rockies where else should an ouzel be if not at his own falls ? I was to find my own at Granite Ranch . I knew there should be one on Swift ...
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The method is like that of the more familiar " Fall of Icarus , in which all we are shown of Icarus ' catastrophic experiment with wings are his two small legs disappearing into the water of a great bay . The only pictorial emphasis ...
The method is like that of the more familiar " Fall of Icarus , in which all we are shown of Icarus ' catastrophic experiment with wings are his two small legs disappearing into the water of a great bay . The only pictorial emphasis ...
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“ The Fall of Icarus ” exists in two versions , the one in the D. M. van Buuren Collection ( Brussels and New York ) , with a large winged figure in the sky , as if before the fall , and the other , without the winged figure , in the ...
“ The Fall of Icarus ” exists in two versions , the one in the D. M. van Buuren Collection ( Brussels and New York ) , with a large winged figure in the sky , as if before the fall , and the other , without the winged figure , in the ...
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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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