... reveals as much about the teller/reader as the tale. In this, she is paralleled closely with Hana, who seeks signs of herself both within the texts of the library and in the anonymous tabula rasa to ... end of its outstretched hand. The judging of one's own mortality. I think when I see him at the foot of my bed that Kip is my David. (116) Compare this description of the painting to the physical posture of Hana ... describes as the "truth of lying" (Wachtel 258). Not only do they challenge the notion of a text as a "fixing" of discourse between two covers, but they also both present a...

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