... of non-people and are as alive as jazz with their quiddity and idiosyncrasy." The past and the present are not separate within "Beloved"; they appear as a single entity, without any means of distinction. Judith Thurman writes of Toni Morrison's literary style, "She treats the past as if it were one of the luminous old scenes painted on dark glass and she breaks ... powerful and emotive, yet also composed of their own ideologies that form the final statement of "I am Beloved and she is mine" (p. 214). Like an improvised jazz piece, there is no past and present, only individual perspectiv...

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