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... living the same life , and meeting in the end the same death . What does it matter that Nausicaa is a king's daughter ? She is a girl playing with her companions , a type of eternal maidenhood . What does it matter , when we sit in the ...
... living the same life , and meeting in the end the same death . What does it matter that Nausicaa is a king's daughter ? She is a girl playing with her companions , a type of eternal maidenhood . What does it matter , when we sit in the ...
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... living Dread . Then look at the slow movement , as the destruction is importuned , and the hurrying hawk - like swoop of its descent ; and finally , at the end , the startling effect , after the suggestion of the smooth opening dactyls ...
... living Dread . Then look at the slow movement , as the destruction is importuned , and the hurrying hawk - like swoop of its descent ; and finally , at the end , the startling effect , after the suggestion of the smooth opening dactyls ...
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... living it , is more important than art . It is no doubt possible to isolate the tragic elements in life and make an artistic creation of them , or to isolate the comic elements and make a similar creation of them ; and no doubt also by ...
... living it , is more important than art . It is no doubt possible to isolate the tragic elements in life and make an artistic creation of them , or to isolate the comic elements and make a similar creation of them ; and no doubt also by ...
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