is greeted with a Hallmark card in placenof baptism. Of all the basic human conditionsnfamily is, it seems, most subjectnto the trivializing pathos of sentimentality.nLet me be specific. Eli's brutal usenof Elizabeth as "a baby machine" isncertainly frowned upon, and rathernforcefully portrayed, but the ultimatencause of the frown . . .
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