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The town was very small , yet because of the springs offered plenty of accommodations for strangers . The sandy , flowering desert floor was within a few minutes walk of any point in it . A road along the foot of the hills and another ...
The town was very small , yet because of the springs offered plenty of accommodations for strangers . The sandy , flowering desert floor was within a few minutes walk of any point in it . A road along the foot of the hills and another ...
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Its situation is meaner than its neighboring resort town , but its view is grander , for the gateway peaks to the west and southwest are far enough away to be seen ; whereas the residents of Palm Springs , closely backed by their own ...
Its situation is meaner than its neighboring resort town , but its view is grander , for the gateway peaks to the west and southwest are far enough away to be seen ; whereas the residents of Palm Springs , closely backed by their own ...
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Doubtless it was natural enough for them to make their town as much like the towns they had come from as they could . They could hardly have been happy except within their familiar social pattern . This pattern was nowhere more evident ...
Doubtless it was natural enough for them to make their town as much like the towns they had come from as they could . They could hardly have been happy except within their familiar social pattern . This pattern was nowhere more evident ...
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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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