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everything about them that was irreconcilable,
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the human discrepancies that produced all the power.
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It was enough to feel the thrill of leading a double life."
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And what this passage, the sentences above, emphasize,
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is that Faunia is a woman of thirty-four,
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a "wordless illiterate," and that Coleman is a man replete with the
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vocabularies of two ancient tongues, as well as his own native tongue.
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So, the very difference between them, this time limned in terms of
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education and language, vocabulary, literacy,
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here it's that difference that is invoked as the engine of desire.
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So, if desire is always that looking towards the other thing,
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the thing that you are not, the thing that you do not have,