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...belief that the vigil represented a relaxation of the border separating the world of the spirit from the human sphere. All Hallows' became associated with witches, elves, fairies and all their manifestations (e.g. black cats); it was thought to be a time of unprecedented, frightening spiritual interference in mortal lives...
Walker has written that the play "explores the terrain of the ineffable." The god whose cult it concerns is beyond mortal understanding: Dionysos is automorphic, xenophoric, acrobatic, dark, sexual and fierce all at once--a gleeful irreverent demanding reverence. So Euripides focuses on our experience instead: the human response to divinity...
...mythical feel of the novel is not without its problems, however. Lim often intersperses Han's dream sequences with the more direct prose of the remainder of the novel, presumably because these visions help to chronicle Han's transition, even within her lifetime, from a mortal to a goddess. This technique also results in a great deal of befuddlement for the reader; the line between a stylistic intent and a confused style becomes unclear. Events may occur rather believably in one chapter, before being contradicted when reality is revealed in the next...
...Conlon points out that we are clearly deficient in our attention to the less obvious threats that every cop faces on a daily basis. Police are plagued with a suicide rate well above the national average, and the invisible damage to the psyche of people who must run towards mortal danger on a daily basis, under the restraint of a myriad of rules stacked against them, is immeasurable. These considerations do not excuse those who break under the pressure and resort to illegal cruelty, but they should inform our reaction to such episodes with a greater sensitivity to their complexities...
Although she will say she is "always late," a mortal sin in what the ever-politically correct campus politician terms Harvard's "culture of appointments," it is through no scheduling fault of her own. For though Lamelle may insist that everyone on campus "finds their niche and digs in deep," none, it seems, has reached the depth and breadth of immersion as the first-ever female Undergraduate Council president...