... ." (Turner, pp. 23-29) Darl Bundren takes the place as the Wise Man, according to Carl Jung, representing age-old wisdom and knowledge. The Wise Man is personified as the spiritual principle and supernatural meaning, which can both only be found in the psychic experience of man. In this sense, Darl is like a sage and prophet to the rest of the ... as if he were reaching for his mother: The life in him runs under the skin, under my hand, running through the splotches, smelling us into my nose where the sickness is beginning to cry, vomiting the crying, and then I can breathe, vomiting it....

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