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... Dump , are amongst the finest things White has written . Freed from the necessity of accommodating his picture of ordinary life to the demands of an all - embracing allego- rical plan , he achieves in these stories a vision 38 PATRICK ...
... Dump , are amongst the finest things White has written . Freed from the necessity of accommodating his picture of ordinary life to the demands of an all - embracing allego- rical plan , he achieves in these stories a vision 38 PATRICK ...
Page 39
... Dump , the final and in some ways the most impressive story in the collection , White at last seems to come to terms ... Dump presents us with a similar confrontation of death and adolescence , but the situation is imaged in harsher and ...
... Dump , the final and in some ways the most impressive story in the collection , White at last seems to come to terms ... Dump presents us with a similar confrontation of death and adolescence , but the situation is imaged in harsher and ...
Page 40
... Dump concludes on an unmistakable note of hope : The warm core of certainty settled stiller as driving faster the wind payed out the telephone wires the fences the flattened heads of grey grass always raising themselves again again ...
... Dump concludes on an unmistakable note of hope : The warm core of certainty settled stiller as driving faster the wind payed out the telephone wires the fences the flattened heads of grey grass always raising themselves again again ...
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