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altogether, since those very scenes that one
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might ineptly accuse of sensuous existence of their own are the most
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strictly functional ones in the development of a tragic tale tending
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unswervingly to nothing less than a moral apotheosis.
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The cynic may say that commercial pornography makes the same claim.
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The learned may counter by asserting that HH's impassioned confession is
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a tempest in a test tube, that at least 12% of American adult
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males (a conservative estimate according to Dr.
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Blanche Schwarzmann, verbal communication) enjoy yearly
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in one way or another the special experience of HH that HH describes
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as such despair, that, had our demented diarist gone
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in the fateful summer of 1947 to a competent psychopathologist,