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separate from you.
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Difference between human beings is just that, in this scene,
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just the engine of desire.
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So, here, for all the meditations on race, the social construction of
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race, race as performance, race as essence,
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race as biology, race as secret, it's secret that gets to that
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over-arching concern with desire in the novel.
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And this is a moment where I think Roth is transcending the genre.
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He's taking the dramas of the Identity Plot,
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and he's driving them to an extreme and pushing them over in to another
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subject matter.
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So, in this sense, identity as secrecy pushes us over