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Page 105
... perfect audience . After each act the director reads out the remarks he has jotted down . There is a row with the electrician who , with nothing to do but attend to his switches , has turned on the wrong ones ; and the author is ...
... perfect audience . After each act the director reads out the remarks he has jotted down . There is a row with the electrician who , with nothing to do but attend to his switches , has turned on the wrong ones ; and the author is ...
Page 259
... perfect theory ; it has but one defect ; it is unbelievable . When I cherished the ambition of writing a book on these matters , thinking I must start at the begin- ning , I studied epistemology . I found none of the theories that I ...
... perfect theory ; it has but one defect ; it is unbelievable . When I cherished the ambition of writing a book on these matters , thinking I must start at the begin- ning , I studied epistemology . I found none of the theories that I ...
Page 290
... perfect pattern , includes old age as well as youth and maturity . The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good , but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the ...
... perfect pattern , includes old age as well as youth and maturity . The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good , but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the ...
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