Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passingly well in another story, "Chagrin D'Amour." The poor writer is inspired by a dream, but cannot satisfactorily write it out as he thinks a 'true poet' would. Instead he resolves "that he must content himself with being a true poet, a dreamer, a seer, only in his soul, and that his handiwork must retain that of a simple man of letters." The quotation is revealing, especially given the strongly autobiographical nature of Hesse's later stories. Whether Hesse recognized that he was no 'true poet,' or not, it is a fact that the problems in most...
Jenkins said that Reese was a "very bright soul" and "not an unstable person who would leave without telling anyone...
...someone using a title as politically and emotionally suggestive as "I Have a Woman Inside My Soul" turn out verse as vapid...
...have a woman inside my soul...
...away from home to join St. Francis of Assisi and his band of pious mendicants. Legend has it that St. Thomas Aquinas' family locked him in a room with a whore to dissuade him from joining the Dominican order. But the deprogramming practiced by to day's soul snatchers seems suspiciously like a religious version of the Ludovico technique - that brain-blowing treatment administered to Alex, the anti-hero in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. It was designed to make him acceptable to society by ridding him of his sado-sexual violence. In the process Alex also...