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Essays Madeleine Doran. Listening A special pleasure of waking early on spring morn- ings in Wisconsin , especially if one lives near a wood , is in hearing the increasingly multiple and varying chorus of bird song . One has ... Listening ...
Essays Madeleine Doran. Listening A special pleasure of waking early on spring morn- ings in Wisconsin , especially if one lives near a wood , is in hearing the increasingly multiple and varying chorus of bird song . One has ... Listening ...
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... listening I think there is a more profound satisfac- tion than in just recognizing or learning the song , and it has to do with the listening itself . To be silent , to be attentive to something outside oneself , especially to empty ...
... listening I think there is a more profound satisfac- tion than in just recognizing or learning the song , and it has to do with the listening itself . To be silent , to be attentive to something outside oneself , especially to empty ...
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... listening to the past as well as to the present . Man is the only animal , presumably , which can contemplate its own history and be instructed by it . And he can be , not just through learning directly what to do or what not to do ...
... listening to the past as well as to the present . Man is the only animal , presumably , which can contemplate its own history and be instructed by it . And he can be , not just through learning directly what to do or what not to do ...
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