10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FARAWAYNESS»
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farawayness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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His inner farawayness merges with his outer circumstances, bringing him close to
himself in a new way. Colors/passions/forms are less careful, more bold. I
vaguely remember that Mama and my grandmother had to help him get back
home.
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The Thing and Art: Two Essays on the Ontotopy of the Work of Art
... of theoretical contemplation. However, exactly that farawayness of things,
exactly that distance to overstep which we never can without destroying the thing
itself, is the condition of the irreplaceable drawing closer of the being of man and
the ...
3
Wayside thoughts: being a series of desultory essays on ...
His birthday, as was heretofore the fountain of the Nile, is hidden in the mist of
immemorial farawayness. He sat upon papa's shoulder in that inconceivably
remote geological period when the latter was but a tiny boy, and went to school,
and ...
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1868
4
The Mother on the Other Side of the World: Poems
... I could make of the goings-on down there namesake the strange word on my
ear from within the woods came the sourceless whinny that went with his looks
the farawayness of it began and circled out and back to its beginnings within me
too ...
5
William and Henry James: Selected Letters
But good-night again — as my thoughts flutter despairingly (of attainment) toward
your farawayness, under the hope that the Cambridge autumn is handsome &
wholesome about you. I yearn over Alice to the point of wondering if some day ...
William James, Henry James, Ignas K. Skrupskelis, 1997
6
Europe's Macadam, America's Tar: How America Really Compares ...
... mythic-- but farawayness is of course no longer far. A more muscular reason is
that we indirectly, and habitually, see nothing. It is as if we "pragmatists" have--
for pragmatic economic reasons?-- pragmatised ourselves out of pragmatism into
...
You are terribly far away and the particular spot with which your farawayness is
associated at present (for I never revelled in Cambridge) adds to the chill (if I
were a real magazinist I should say the pathos) which the general fact has cast
over ...
Henry James, Leon Edel, 1980
Restrained. A timorous, brittle thing, like the Hero's gonads. And it would hit you,
hotly, suddenly, the shame of it. Your polarity. Your farawayness. Of being so
fucking close to something, but totally missing it. Like you weren't really even
there.
9
Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies
FRANCE'S BLACK VENUS For all of aesthetic modernism's self-contained
Europeness, and for all of colonialism's farawayness, the two activities were
twinned. In parallel fashion they rose in the mid-nineteenth century, flourished for
about a ...
10
Hungry for Light: The Journal of Ethel Schwabacher
at all like my moon that involved a sense of farawayness. One knew it was solid.
One knew it was huge. One knew it gave off light, but this was not what one saw.
One saw an effulgence, as yesterday, in a very similar though minor way, I saw ...
Ethel Schwabacher, Brenda S. Webster, Judith Emlyn Johnson, 1993
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FARAWAYNESS»
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For Fiona Capp's Australian protagonist, Gotland is ''a constellation of things: the place itself, its layers of history and myth, its farawayness''. «Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 13»
