V-2nd - Chapter 8 - Section IV - Stencil's soliloquy: the soul-dentist and the WSC don't "get" him...

[alice wellintown]

Right on, brother!

A Poem and some analysis of it.
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/gold.htm

Joseph Tracy wrote:
> To own the power of feminine sexuality, fertility, beauty,nurture, mystery of birth, of continuity.  Men plotting to make the feminine serve some new, though as yet  unstated revolutionary adjustments of power. To hide Venus for awhile in the Judas tree to shamelessly connect again the goddess to betrayal, the age old scheme- Eve the culprit -and Eve the mother of a thorny exit from paradise.
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> The dentist takes that which is from nature but which is weakened and painful from mischance or abuse and removes the weakened part to replace it with silver or gold . The  biological organism becomes an extension of metallurgy, tools, excavation, craftsmanship. His prosthetic skills make him the high priest of self preservation, the forgiver of the overindulgent.