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... and reproduced by Morris. 9: I do not know whether it was a subconscious
feeling that this sort of writing was contrary to my bent or a naturally methodical
cast of mind that led me then to turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan
Period.
... and reproduced by Morris. 9: I do not know whether it was a subconscious
feeling that this sort of writing was contrary to my bent or a naturally methodical
cast of mind that led me then to turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan
Period.
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But words are tyrannical things, they exist for their meanings, and if you will not
pay attention to these, you cannot pay attention at all. Your mind wanders. This
kind of writing demands a subject that will suit it. It is surely out of place to write in
...
But words are tyrannical things, they exist for their meanings, and if you will not
pay attention to these, you cannot pay attention at all. Your mind wanders. This
kind of writing demands a subject that will suit it. It is surely out of place to write in
...
Page 124
recapture your attention. It is a psychological trait in human nature that interest is
established in the persons whom the playwright introduces at the beginning of
his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter
...
recapture your attention. It is a psychological trait in human nature that interest is
established in the persons whom the playwright introduces at the beginning of
his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter
...
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| Title | The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1 Armed Services ed Armed Services editions Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Volume 5339 of Collection of British authors International Collector's Library Volume 60 of Mentor books Volume 5339 of Tauchnitz edition of British and American authors Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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