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At any rate , the essay is about swans that I have seen , and also , to be truthful , nearly as much about ruby - crowned kinglets and water ouzels as it is about swans . Let us begin with swans . This first story has to do with Ruth ...
At any rate , the essay is about swans that I have seen , and also , to be truthful , nearly as much about ruby - crowned kinglets and water ouzels as it is about swans . Let us begin with swans . This first story has to do with Ruth ...
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I've seen the parents feeding the young , even seen their red mouths gaping , not upwards like young robins , but downwards , in an opening of the nest right above the racing water . How the nestlings are secured inside is a puzzle to ...
I've seen the parents feeding the young , even seen their red mouths gaping , not upwards like young robins , but downwards , in an opening of the nest right above the racing water . How the nestlings are secured inside is a puzzle to ...
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We need reassurance that a thing once seen may be seen again , that the world we live in is stable enough for us to feel at home in . When we have seen the prothonotary a second time , we do not lose the first experience of it .
We need reassurance that a thing once seen may be seen again , that the world we live in is stable enough for us to feel at home in . When we have seen the prothonotary a second time , we do not lose the first experience of it .
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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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