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Aeneas, yet still manages to recall that it is the animals who escape love:
"Why nught not
I,
alas, have mourned away / My widow'd youth, as well
as turtles do?" (IV 550-1) Gods and animals may do without, but not
humans. The risk involved is the price of happiness, which cannot be
achieved by other means. The boundless love ofJan for his daughter brings
him madness and death, but he prefers this to a barren, loveless existence.
The peasants of his village recognize after his death that "this man had
perhaps the richest and warmest heart in the land." Little Momo, in
La
vie
devant soi,
has a brush with madness and death as a result of the love he has
for Madame Rosa, and still his last words are these: "One cannot but love."
Coming in
Partisan Rev iew :
Translated from the French
by
Jim Tucker
• Doris Lessing: Excerpt from
Walking in the Shade
• Susan Haack:
The Best Man Jor the Job May Be a Woman
• Louis
A.
Sass on Wittgenstein and Freud
• George Monteiro:
Cohn's Descent
• Thomas Doherty:
Olaudah Equiano's Journeys
• Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui on Thomas Mann
New Poems
by:
• Peter Davison
• Heather McHugh
• WS. Di Piero
• Suzanne Paola
• James Laughlin
• Agha Shahid
Ali
New Fiction
by:
• Corinna
• Andrey Platanov
• Janco Polic Kamov
• John Thompson
