The Wind SpiritIn this volume of autobiography, Michel Tournier, novelist and philosopher, evokes both the personal experiences and the cultural currents that shaped himself, his ideas and his fiction. |
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... word comes from the Greek phoreo ( to carry ) , a root that can be found in such words . as doryphorus ( spear carrier ) , euphoric ( literally , bear- ing well ) , and Christopher ( bearer of Christ ) . 20 But before expounding the ...
... word comes from the Greek phoreo ( to carry ) , a root that can be found in such words . as doryphorus ( spear carrier ) , euphoric ( literally , bear- ing well ) , and Christopher ( bearer of Christ ) . 20 But before expounding the ...
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... word . It would be interesting to dig up the old class newspaper entitled The Red Globule , which he wrote and ... words were not my own , but where had I dug them up ? I thought about it long and hard . Finally an an- gel whispered the ...
... word . It would be interesting to dig up the old class newspaper entitled The Red Globule , which he wrote and ... words were not my own , but where had I dug them up ? I thought about it long and hard . Finally an an- gel whispered the ...
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... word fate twice in two sen- tences , I owe the reader a word of explanation . Fate , says the dictionary , is a necessary but unknown sequence of events . To these three ingredients one must add a fourth , namely , an ego , a human ...
... word fate twice in two sen- tences , I owe the reader a word of explanation . Fate , says the dictionary , is a necessary but unknown sequence of events . To these three ingredients one must add a fourth , namely , an ego , a human ...
Contents
Born Under a Lucky Star | 1 |
The Ogre | 52 |
The Mythic Dimension | 123 |
Copyright | |
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