Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human race would just quiet down, news from the animal world would easily fill all departments of the newspapers. Last week animal stories were pouring...
...flight, in the April 5 Saturday Evening Post, one of Gerald Kersh's characters said: "I have the report of the Montana crash. Ted Oxen took off alone in a certain jet-propelled plane. . . . Out of the scorched and twisted wreckage the authorities picked certain remains of a human being. This human being must have been a child nine or ten years old, according to the analysis...
They talk about the war and the world they live in until at Rosetta's suggestion they sit at a booth, where the dialogue becomes first a conscious and then a dream exploration of what they know or can remember of human life-the Seven Ages of Man, that end in senescence and death...
...With the human enterprise...
...seeing Quant and Malin to the door, she finds Emble passed out cold on her bed. The promise of love was an illusion. The poem ends, as it began, in the loneliness and frustration of all four characters, for Auden is preaching a revulsion from all temporal goods, including human love; the only thing to hold out for is the ultimate mercy of Christ...