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    What really becomes clear is that “it is the place that matters” (Eiseley 229), that at the heart of our existence is the simple desire to belong.

     

    What really becomes clear is that “it is the place that matters” and at the heart of our existence is the simple desire to belong (Eiseley 229).

     

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    Eiseley asserts that “it is the place that matters”, that at he heart of our existence is the simple desire to belong “to a time and a place because without them man is lost” (229).

     

     

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    Eiseley asserts that “it is the place that matters”, that we are “all part of an elusive world that existed nowhere and yet everywhere” (229, 235).

     

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    Polonius cautions Ophelia not to believe Hamlet’s vows of love because they are “mere implorators of unholy suits, / Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds / The better to beguile” (1.3.138-40).

     

     

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                What really becomes clear is that “it is the place that matters” and at the heart of our existence is the simple desire to belong (Eiseley 229).  Whether it is a “mouse brain in exile from its home” or a confused pigeon wondering when its “river was about to flow once more” (231, 233), the overwhelming drive is to land in a safe, comfortable place and remain there. Eiseley’s musings are perhaps his attempt to “claim a time and make it forever his own” (Christianson xii), and for that we can not but sympathize with him. Though perhaps not as tortured as the insomniac anthropologist, we must admit that there are times when we confront our own insecurities, when we ourselves feel “out of touch but somehow permanent”(Eiseley 236).

     

     

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    Works Cited

     

    Hennessy, Margot C. "Listening to the Secret Mother: Reading J.E. Wideman's Brothers and Keepers." 

       AmericanWomen's Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of Memory. Ed. Margo Culley. Madison, WI:U. Wisconsin P, 1992. 302-314.

    Jones, V.S., M.E. Eakle, and C.W.Foerster. A History of Newspapers. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge UP, 1987.

    Metheny, N.M., and W. D. Snively. Nurses' Handbook of Fluid Balance. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1967.

    "Money." Compton's Precyclopedia. 1977 ed., X, 80-91.

    Mumford, Lewis. The Highway and the City. New York: Harcourt Brace and World, 1963.

    - - -. Highways Around the World. New York: Prentice, 1967.

    Orchestra. CD-ROM. Burbank: WarnerNew Media. 1992.

    Pepin, Ronald E. Literature of Satire in the Twelfth Century. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen P, 1988.

     

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