Grendel by John Gardner

[alchimicus]

You make them think and scheme. You drive them to poetry, science, religion, all that makes them what they are for as long as they last. You are, so to speak, the brute existant by which they learn to define themselves. The exile, captivity, death they shrink from-- the blunt facts of their mortality, their abandonment-- thats what you make them

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[acknowledge101]

I had to read that today in AP lit. I didn't like it.