I never thought of his sailing west as a Second Best thing. I too, disagree with the article about how it was an "exile or banishment." I was just sad at the end, because it was so inevitable, and sad because of his lost innocence. More later when i have time! Gotta run for now...
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The musicians had indeed laid bare the youngest, most innocent of our ideas of life, the indestructible yearning for the way things aren't and can never be. ~ Philip Roth, The Human Stain
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