... be a man to whom order is necessary--as dear as life" (p. 8). Cather goes on to depict the noble characteristics of Father Lour when she writes: "When he discovers the juniper tree in the shape of a cross, his immediate response is one of grateful worship a priest in a thousand . . ... desires of their own or, more precisely, to find in narrative's most necessary temporal characteristics-initiation, complication, deferral, closure-the paradigms for the psychoanalytic vocabulary of desire. In other words, as Freud implicitly recognized, biological existence becomes meaningful, becomes in ...

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... also believed that humans had to stop focusing on what we think the world is, and start noticing the truth: Yes, the springtimes have needed you. There've been stars To solicit your seeing. In the past, perhaps, Waves rose to greet you, or out an open window, As you passed, a violin was giving itself To someone. This was a different commandment. But could you obey ... it? Weren't you always Anxiously peering past them, as though They announced a sweetheart's coming? (Reading Rilke, The First Elegy, p.190) The difference, however, is that Whitman offers a way to achieve this "golden sile...

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