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Poets, Critics, and God-Talk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Judith Wilt
Judith Wilt
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Boston College
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She'd had no end of myths about immortals coming down and taking human bodies, dying human deaths. Helen knew how to interpret that scripture: if gods could do this human thing, then we could as well. That plot as the mind's brainchild, awareness explaining itself to itself.…She'd had the bit about the soul fastened to a dying animal. What she needed, in order to forgive our race and live here in peace, was faith's flip side … how body stumbled onto the stricken celestial, how it taught itself to twig time and what lay beyond time. (Powers, 319–320)

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Review Essays
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , Spring 1997 , pp. 181 - 190
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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