... "(4) while the second is the lifestyle that Prufrock longs to be associated with - much like the image of Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel where God and Adam's hands are nearly touching, but not quite. While Prufrock doesn't belong to either of these two classes completely, he does have characteristics of both. He claims to be "Full of ... " (21-22) may be identified, within the context of the tremendous dialectic between conventional and unconventional christology that is the subject of "The Second Coming," as "the man of lawlessness" (ho anthropos tes anomias...

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