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... reality . Peer himself is no mere aesthete , as is sometimes claimed : he is the greatest doubter of all , not in the sense of a Hamlet paralysed by scrupulous indecision or a Macbeth unable to reconcile his conscience to a dreadful ...
... reality . Peer himself is no mere aesthete , as is sometimes claimed : he is the greatest doubter of all , not in the sense of a Hamlet paralysed by scrupulous indecision or a Macbeth unable to reconcile his conscience to a dreadful ...
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... reality are too much for them . The fact that Ibsen the tragicomedian is still a relatively shadowy figure speaks for itself in relation to the San Francisco anecdote . Life may be , as Peer says , a " queer enough business " which ...
... reality are too much for them . The fact that Ibsen the tragicomedian is still a relatively shadowy figure speaks for itself in relation to the San Francisco anecdote . Life may be , as Peer says , a " queer enough business " which ...
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... reality directly , and with language stripped of all evasion , only after Oswald's mindless demand for " The sun . The sun , " this last coher- ent speech of Helene's is presumably her final attempt to deny the full truth to herself ...
... reality directly , and with language stripped of all evasion , only after Oswald's mindless demand for " The sun . The sun , " this last coher- ent speech of Helene's is presumably her final attempt to deny the full truth to herself ...
Contents
Journeys into Uncertainty | 23 |
The Vision Blurs | 71 |
All Hope Abandoned? | 104 |
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