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All this is surely related to his sense of the blues, of which he has written, "The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it . . . by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism".
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Straining to lose consciousness, aching to sleep, doomed.
Not only do daemons answer the writer's need to turn a character's internal struggles into drama; they speak to the ache of consciousness and the desire for an ideal companion.
Here's one of Wiker's problems with Friedan Bettyy was quite homely (which her mother never let her forget) and this consciousness of her unattractiveness coupled with her aching desire for romance seared her soul from childhood.
The aching.
Legs start aching.
The enormous aching".
Oh, my aching ribs.
"My heart is aching".
Oh my aching sides!
OH my aching back!
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