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but be.
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This is what Menelaus has to ask forgiveness for.
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He didn't have enough faith in love just to be and to accept the
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affirmation of his being that Helen's reasonless, causeless
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love embodies.
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Barth is asking a really serious question about the compatibility
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between life and voice.
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Remember that in "Ambrose His Mark" Ambrose is saved from
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the bees lighting on his mouth because his mouth is on
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his mother's breast.
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He's asleep there having nursed.
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It's as if the bees which signify eloquence if they land on your mouth,