"The Fire Sermon" Annotations
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This "he" adopts the role of a Buddha-like figure, who promises deliverance from the overwhelming feeling of dejection in modern society. | This "he" adopts the role of a Buddha-like figure, who promises deliverance from the overwhelming feeling of dejection in modern society. | ||
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| + | ===[[Buddha]]=== | ||
The section concludes along the same lines, tying in the burning of passions with the feeling of despair so prevalent in modernist literature. | The section concludes along the same lines, tying in the burning of passions with the feeling of despair so prevalent in modernist literature. | ||
