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“But my body passes vagrant as a bird’s shadow. I should be transient as the shadow on the meadow…were it not that I coerce my brain to form in my forehead…I seem already to have lived many thousand years.” (46)
“The human voice has a disarming quality-(we are not single, we are one).” (47)
Words and words and words … (the desire for unity, and yet the innate tendency towards decomposition, exposed)

'Had I been born,' said Bernard, 'not knowing that one word follows another I might have been, who knows, perhaps anything...'

2nd chapter

“I see wild birds, and impulses wilder than the wildest birds strike from my wild heart.” (40)
“The distance closes for ever in a point, and we for ever open the distance wide again.” (43)
“I open my body, I shut my body at my will. Life is just beginning. I now break into my hoard of life.” (44)
“But my body passes vagrant as a bird’s shadow.” (46)
a world’s emerging wideness yet construction..

I am Bernard; I am Byron; I am this, that, and the other... I am more selves than Neville thinks. We are not simple as our friends would have us to meet their needs. Yet love is simple.

p 36 has maybe some of the clearest and best quotes so far… an awakening groundedness, a desire to know oneself and one’s place fully and to be desired …