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"In this way diametrically opposed but equally extreme psychic states such as pain and ecstasy, despair and bliss, are comparable experiences because they both usurp and annihilate time. They create their own sense of eternity."

I fear when you're Hirsch everything in Whitemanesque - though what this term means to Hirsch he does not bother explaining

Men continue to analyse Edge by Sylvia Plath as if she was destined to kill herself, ignoring the obvious irony in "The ILLUSION of a Greek necessity" and the passive voice of "The woman is perfected" also the moon at the end having "nothing to be sad about" since "She is used to this sort of thing." Get it together guys!