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Well. Entertainers occupy a quasi-sexual world onstage, symbolically conquering entire audiences with their vasty charms. A good rock performer must maintain a tremendously sexual presence onstage ...
For example, on several occasions Shakespeare changed the word "vast" to "vasty" when "vast" did not fit the rhythm of the line. But if we look beyond the dialogue to the words themselves we can ...
only to be succeeded by the invocation of some new spirit from the vasty deep, which never comes. The vary lament made by the Examiner, to-day, was made by patriotic men a hundred and fifty years ago.
Unlike Conrad, Faulkner depends on madmen for his best effects. From the vasty deep of nightmares and bogeymen he can summon up ghosts that haunt nurseries and still frighten some grownups.