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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 .
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 .
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sation of the persons on the stage at the rising of the curtain concentrates the attention of the audience on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this practice more scrupu- lously than ...
sation of the persons on the stage at the rising of the curtain concentrates the attention of the audience on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this practice more scrupu- lously than ...
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It seems strange that so much attention has been paid to these things . The method that Henry James devised and brought to a high degree of perfection of telling his story through the sensibilities of an observer who had some part in ...
It seems strange that so much attention has been paid to these things . The method that Henry James devised and brought to a high degree of perfection of telling his story through the sensibilities of an observer who had some part in ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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