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... narrator dreams of the Temple of Venus , where he learns of Dido and Aeneas . The second book , detailing the narrator's journey , in the talons of a golden eagle , to the House of Fame , and the contrast between the eagle's chatty ...
... narrator dreams of the Temple of Venus , where he learns of Dido and Aeneas . The second book , detailing the narrator's journey , in the talons of a golden eagle , to the House of Fame , and the contrast between the eagle's chatty ...
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... narrator observes the con- versation with only mild interest until he notices the arrogance of the ugly South American , dwarfish yet somehow given to the gestures of a much more pow- erful man . The stakes he proposes are shocking ...
... narrator observes the con- versation with only mild interest until he notices the arrogance of the ugly South American , dwarfish yet somehow given to the gestures of a much more pow- erful man . The stakes he proposes are shocking ...
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... narrator's suspicions are con- firmed when , at dinner with the other guests , he ob- serves a quite obvious triangular love relationship be- tween Lady Turton , Major Haddock , a handsome retired serviceman , and Carmen La Rosa , a ...
... narrator's suspicions are con- firmed when , at dinner with the other guests , he ob- serves a quite obvious triangular love relationship be- tween Lady Turton , Major Haddock , a handsome retired serviceman , and Carmen La Rosa , a ...
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