The story is told mostly from the viewpoint of Petir, a needy fellow trapped in a " circle of solitariness, " who works as a petty bureaucrat in the vast Pyramid Combine, a state-led bank in an unspecified fictional country.
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"For Love of the Game, " with its view of American male solitariness crafted into the inning-by-inning drama, is more than just your usual baseball movie, in other words, and more than just your usual boy-girl story.
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The difference is that many of the characters in this volume are older now, and there is a sense of irrevocability to these narratives : a sense that choices have been made, that antidotes to the solitariness of life are unavailable, that the hopes so many earlier Shepard characters entertained _ that they could continually reinvent themselves _ are slipping out of reach.
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When he was ten years old, his father died; and an uncle, considering the widowed solitariness and helplessness of the mother, urged him to renounce the monastic life, and return to her, but the boy replied, " I did not quit the family in compliance with my father s wishes, but because I wished to be far from the dust and vulgar ways of life.
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But what makes the ending of " Amy's View " finally so stirring, more than justifying the blind alleys ( the title included ) that the play travels en route to its finish, is what it suggests _ that Esme in her very solitariness is never more at one with those of us out there in the dark who are lifted up by the power of empathy into the light.
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His uncle, also called Thomas Charnock, had been an alchemist, as well as the confessor to Elizabeth I . He says that his pursuit of the philosopher's stone has in large measure been impeded by'worldly necessities', and that the said stone is reserved for men who have the gift of'solitariness .'He took this seriously enough to ask Elizabeth to allow him to carry on his experiments in the Tower of London, or another'solitary place .'This was probably stimulated by the hostility of his neighbours, which forced him to barricade himself in his cottage.
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The solitariness of that voice is a heroic revolt against the choir as it memorializes the choir in a literary work . " " Haaretz " was more reserved, noting that Inbari failed to penetrate the inner lives of his subjects and that " in most cases they remain cardboard characters who advance the overall plot but are not sufficiently fleshed out . " On the other hand, another writer for " Haaretz ", who grew up on nearby Ashdot Ya'akov, felt that the description of Afikim in " Home " rang true as " a kind of distilled and intense precis " of life on a kibbutz.
