...fervor of emotion put up his hands, thrusting them into the darkness above his head and muttering words. The desire to say words overcame him and he said words..."Death," he muttered, "night, the sea, fear, loveliness." George Willard came out of the vacant lot and stood again on the sidewalk facing the houses. He felt...

...fervor of emotion put up his hands, thrusting them into the darkness above his head and muttering words. The desire to say words overcame him and he said words..."Death," he muttered, "night, the sea, fear, loveliness." George Willard came out of the vacant lot and stood again on the sidewalk facing the houses. He felt...

...fervor of emotion put up his hands, thrusting them into the darkness above his head and muttering words. The desire to say words overcame him and he said words...he muttered, " night, the sea, fear, loveliness." George Willard came out of the vacant lot and stood again on the sidewalk facing the houses. He felt...

...fervor of emotion put up his hands, thrusting them into the darkness above his head and muttering words. The desire to say words overcame him and he said words...them because they were brave words, full of meaning. f ear,' love*' lines*-. • — ^ -|j^ J George Willard came out of the vacant lot and ^"stood again...

...fervor of emotion put up his hands, thrusting them into the darkness above his head and muttering words. The desire to say words overcame him and he said words...'Death,' he muttered, 'night, the sea, fear, loveliness.' " George has previously maneuvered these empty boxes on the pages of the Winesburg Eagle, but now he...

...fervor of emotion put up his hands, thrusting them into the darkness above his head and muttering words. The desire to say words overcame him and he said words...Death," he muttered, "night, the sea, fear, loveliness." (p. 185) This moment of authentic "self-knowledge through erasure of self (the paradox at the center...

...metamorphic powers is subtly undermined by the narrator, as when he tries to capture George's thoughts: "The desire to say words overcame him and he said...them because they were brave words, full of meaning" (150, emphasis mine). Furthermore, George seeks out Belle, thinking "she would understand his mood,"...

...remade by the simple experience" (102). This intoxicating sense of his own >- knowledge leads him to say words "without meaning," "rolling them over on his...'Death,' he muttered, 'night, the sea, fear, loveliness'" (102). George's Q play with words simultaneously "without meaning" and "full of meaning" shows his...