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We have need of wonder at times , but we cannot live on it . Our staple of experience must be things that recur , so that we can recognize them and give them names and go about our business without having to be surprised at everything .
We have need of wonder at times , but we cannot live on it . Our staple of experience must be things that recur , so that we can recognize them and give them names and go about our business without having to be surprised at everything .
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Still , those I talked with , like other desert dwellers in other communities lacking Desert Hot Springs peculiar asset , professed that the desert attracted them greatly as a place in which to live , and they seemed unaware that to ...
Still , those I talked with , like other desert dwellers in other communities lacking Desert Hot Springs peculiar asset , professed that the desert attracted them greatly as a place in which to live , and they seemed unaware that to ...
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On the northern California coast , from just above Crescent City down to Santa Cruz , the redwoods live in fog — in pockets in the hills , where it settles like water in tide - pools , or on steep mountainsides above the ocean ...
On the northern California coast , from just above Crescent City down to Santa Cruz , the redwoods live in fog — in pockets in the hills , where it settles like water in tide - pools , or on steep mountainsides above the ocean ...
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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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