The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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... appear problematic . But granting that every ordinary man and woman has a conscience , whether in spite of Pure Reason the intruder reaches us from another dimension , or whether it is an inherited taboo from pre - historic ances- tors ...
... appear problematic . But granting that every ordinary man and woman has a conscience , whether in spite of Pure Reason the intruder reaches us from another dimension , or whether it is an inherited taboo from pre - historic ances- tors ...
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John Cowper Powys. you old man appears in his totality , while the old lady appears - we are , of course , eliminating the possibility of a mirror - as a body without a head . But will ask : What next ? ' Well ! it is now that I come to ...
John Cowper Powys. you old man appears in his totality , while the old lady appears - we are , of course , eliminating the possibility of a mirror - as a body without a head . But will ask : What next ? ' Well ! it is now that I come to ...
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... appears as cynicism . To the old woman herself it appears simply as one of those basic truths that men will always be at once too pedantic and too childish to accept . When it becomes a question of sexual error the male tradition always ...
... appears as cynicism . To the old woman herself it appears simply as one of those basic truths that men will always be at once too pedantic and too childish to accept . When it becomes a question of sexual error the male tradition always ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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