... . Jake's conflict of being impotent still haunts him and there is nothing he can do but accept it. This creates a feeling of being "lost" that is the stressed theme of the novel. This of course was developed from a passage from Ecclesiastes which is put in the preface of the novel: "One generation paseth away, and another generation cometh but the earth abideth forever...then sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down and hasteth to the place ... who search for other allegorical meaning inevitably reduce the grandeur of the text." This context was once brought up in a 1958 interview from T...

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