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In this experience it was not exactly the “ firstness ” of the swans that caused the pleasure . Every birder knows the pleasure of “ firsts ” – the first hooded merganser in a mixed flock of ducks , the first pectoral sandpiper among ...
In this experience it was not exactly the “ firstness ” of the swans that caused the pleasure . Every birder knows the pleasure of “ firsts ” – the first hooded merganser in a mixed flock of ducks , the first pectoral sandpiper among ...
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I may say that this kind of magic will not work with mallards , robins , grackles , or warbling vireos , those adaptable birds of here and everywhere that have lost identity of place and so have , for us , forfeited the pleasure of ...
I may say that this kind of magic will not work with mallards , robins , grackles , or warbling vireos , those adaptable birds of here and everywhere that have lost identity of place and so have , for us , forfeited the pleasure of ...
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But another reason , I suggest , is that learning in this pure sense is detached from ourselves and therefore gives the pleasure and freedom that go with absence of self - concern . One key to our enjoyment , I believe , is that our ...
But another reason , I suggest , is that learning in this pure sense is detached from ourselves and therefore gives the pleasure and freedom that go with absence of self - concern . One key to our enjoyment , I believe , is that our ...
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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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