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 | | The Great White Glare seems to meet the requirements of the other half of Freudís psychic writing mechanism, as it is a place where impressions are not only retained, but retained perfectly and permanently, without the possibility of effacement. |
 | | In other words, a close approach to the realm of light is connected with the death of Aliceís parents and the end of her childhood--an unambiguous association of the Great White Glare with the beginning of memory itself, as well as with death and the ìmemorializationî associated with it. |
 | | Yet the stasis of the text--the directionless world of the Dark, the futureless world of the Glare, as well as the unfinished state of the manuscript itself--also reveals Twainís final inability to confront the implications of such a breakdown; his inability, that is, to move completely into a modernist aesthetic. |
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