ENGA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Casual Sex, Nba Coach Of The Year Award, Literature Circle
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Central issue in wasteland is not that western civilization is broken but it"s actually shattered. And being shattered, its pieces are reversed, jumbledincapable of putting back together in a coherent whole that can be nurturing and regenerative a vase that leaves us fearing now that its shattered that it will face endless thirst unquenchable. In the arms of the angels by mcloughlin the emptiness we fear. The emptiness and loneliness we fear that is coupled with all those memories that seep in ot our veins and lead u to seek shelter in the arms of a secular angel: heroin. Deals with existential, psychological, spiritual social emptiness that leads to seek comfort in opiates. Its the suspension in a sense of waiting-waiting for the second chance-waiting for something that never arrives until wait is just too terrible- waiting one needs an distraction from that emptiness and feeling of hollowness.
