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In all of the essays , therefore , whether old or recent , memory plays a rôle . As everyone knows , memory is a sifter , a shaper , a giver of form and emphasis . It may suppress , or even falsify , facts ; it may alter the event it ...
In all of the essays , therefore , whether old or recent , memory plays a rôle . As everyone knows , memory is a sifter , a shaper , a giver of form and emphasis . It may suppress , or even falsify , facts ; it may alter the event it ...
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We are apt to forget , indeed , so precious a memory the setting may be , that we cannot repeat the experience by returning to the place . We cannot have again the first kiss in the moonlight beside a shimmering lake .
We are apt to forget , indeed , so precious a memory the setting may be , that we cannot repeat the experience by returning to the place . We cannot have again the first kiss in the moonlight beside a shimmering lake .
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Memory of past experience changes the very quality of the present . But the memory works in both directions . It also works to enrich the sea . One becomes sharply aware by their very absence of the things belonging to it — the smell of ...
Memory of past experience changes the very quality of the present . But the memory works in both directions . It also works to enrich the sea . One becomes sharply aware by their very absence of the things belonging to it — the smell of ...
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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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