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So, it's not just inhabiting imaginatively,
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but there are these structural ways that he comes
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to double Coleman and also to double his lovers.
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It's by virtue of a blankness that
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Nathan sees in Coleman and in Faunia that he can pull this off,
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and this is very noticeable in my favorite scene
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of the novel, the Tanglewood scene,
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which I think is quite beautiful.
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This is on 209,210.
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He's writing about music, here, and the feeling that all the
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people in the audience were going to be swept away by death.
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That's sort of the overwhelming sense of mortality in the beginning