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Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones; Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss, The pieces kiss again, no end to this ... Equilibrists lie here; stranger, tread light; Close, but untouching in each other's sight; Mouldered the lips and ashy the tall skull. Let them lie perilous and beautiful. Full of tart paradox and sweet passion, Ransom is himself a poetic equilibrist of rare skill. Girded against sentiment with irony, against dullness with wit and cerebral learning, he yet manages to convey the flavor of an innocent past when...
...Shemanskys!" He pours out a stream of instructions on how to live together and how to mourn. Gleich is a nut too, but different from the Shemanskys: fortified with faith in ritual and his own deep warmth, Gleich temporarily stuns the Shemanskys into their tradition: to mourn, to rend their clothes, to talk compassionately of the dead idiot child. The Shemanskys, however, soon evict Gleich (who had moved in with Mrs. Charpolsky) and, as Ma dictates, do not mourn for Zadie (the Shemansky grandfather and financial supporter who died the next week). Zadie lived downstairs too, but nobody visited...
...prudent lion refuses to rend Christians in the arena-not because he cares about them but because he senses that they may soon take political power in Rome and he wants his act of neutrality to be on record...
...provincial mouse. Instead he faces a German mas tiff, correct but bristling. Cajetan employs tact, diplomacy, the accumulated wisdom of the church. Held in the awe some grip of revealed truth, Luther will not budge unless he can be refuted by Scripture. Cajetan pleads with him not to rend the seamless unity of the Christian world: "I beg of you, my son, retract." With nerves clenched more tightly than his teeth, Luther answers: "Most worthy father, I cannot." The papal bull of condemnation follows...
...that man my heart doth rend...