... Shaw flinches as the man cleans his wound. The attendant is telling Shaw that he had heard that Lincoln was going to release a emancipation proclamation to free the slaves. Shaw replies "My God- this reply being appropriate for such news appears to be focused more on the events that are going on behind ... with a round cap that has a bill asks Thomas "Is dat dat da Good Book dere brotha?- and Thomas replies that it is actually a collection of essays from Emerson and all the Transcendentalists. The other guy then asks if it has pictures. Thomas informs him that it does not. He then asks Th...

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... 't say anything for a while, as a group of men on the television are being tormented by men dressed like devils. The camera then takes a long, slow look at one cathedral, then another. For long periods, the show is silent as the camera pans over a scene. The narrator feels as though he should explain to the blind man what is happening on the screen ... appearing in Essays in Literature also read "Cathedral" as the story of a man who undergoes a change. In an expanded and revised version of this essay appearing in 1995, Nesset continued to explore the way the narrator breaks through his s...

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