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But words are tyran . nical 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 ...
But words are tyran . nical 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 ...
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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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But its chief defect was that it lacked the continuous line that directs the reader's
interest ; the stories were not after all of equal importance and it was tiresome to
divert one's attention from one set of people to another . I failed from my
ignorance ...
But its chief defect was that it lacked the continuous line that directs the reader's
interest ; the stories were not after all of equal importance and it was tiresome to
divert one's attention from one set of people to another . I failed from my
ignorance ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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