Wordstruck: A MemoirViking, 1989 - Всего страниц: 230 MacNeil's autobiography re-creates the world of his youth and the experiences that were opened up to him through his love of words. His delight and passion for the music and magic of language, have enabled MacNeil to transmute it into a work of art. Photos. |
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... close - lipped Nova Scotian dialect . It was multi - hued , like glass fused of many bottles in a fire , with wisps of Lowland Scots and Highland Gaelic , Irish , Hanoverian German , Acadian French , and the many flavours of English ...
... close - lipped Nova Scotian dialect . It was multi - hued , like glass fused of many bottles in a fire , with wisps of Lowland Scots and Highland Gaelic , Irish , Hanoverian German , Acadian French , and the many flavours of English ...
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... prompts to memory through the other senses . I can close my eyes and re - create the atmosphere of a certain grey spring day in Halifax by remembering the words Fresh halibut , fresh mackerel ! shouted by the man from 71 Wordstruck.
... prompts to memory through the other senses . I can close my eyes and re - create the atmosphere of a certain grey spring day in Halifax by remembering the words Fresh halibut , fresh mackerel ! shouted by the man from 71 Wordstruck.
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... and it changed my life . I didn't find God but I found William Shake- speare , a piece of God's work so extraordinary that he comes close to divinity itself . How weary , stale , flat , and unprofitable Seem 126 Robert MacNeil.
... and it changed my life . I didn't find God but I found William Shake- speare , a piece of God's work so extraordinary that he comes close to divinity itself . How weary , stale , flat , and unprofitable Seem 126 Robert MacNeil.
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