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It's also a gendered religious image;
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it's also an aesthetic image.
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But here, it's infused with her compassionate approach to this man.
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And remember, in the passage that I read about Inverarity's escape,
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what she left with, as her final understanding.
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She has a kind of compassion for Pierce
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and the way that he had surrounded himself with this network of holdings
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that he had tried to escape from in some way.
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So, if you cannot, finally,
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have a pattern resolve into a clarity of truth or meaning,
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what you can do instead is inhabit a role
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where you will be in contact with the very material of social life.