The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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... possible praise if a critic said that I myself resembled an old woman it is not as a woman that destiny has decided that I should speak . I can play Tiresias as well as another , as all writers must do if they are to wrestle with the ...
... possible praise if a critic said that I myself resembled an old woman it is not as a woman that destiny has decided that I should speak . I can play Tiresias as well as another , as all writers must do if they are to wrestle with the ...
Page 183
... possible the most immoral , insidious , corrupting , vulgarizing , debasing , degrading , de- humanizing Devil's Agency that has ever existed ? I refer of course to Propaganda or the Press - Gang for minds under seventy . What has made ...
... possible the most immoral , insidious , corrupting , vulgarizing , debasing , degrading , de- humanizing Devil's Agency that has ever existed ? I refer of course to Propaganda or the Press - Gang for minds under seventy . What has made ...
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... possible in certain moods to wish most heartily to be dead ; and not only to be dead , but to be annihilated forever and forever with no remote chance of re - appearance or re - incarnation . - In the same way it is entirely possible ...
... possible in certain moods to wish most heartily to be dead ; and not only to be dead , but to be annihilated forever and forever with no remote chance of re - appearance or re - incarnation . - In the same way it is entirely possible ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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