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possibility of “ultimate commitment” palpable. We continue:) “in moments in which all foregone conclusions, all life-stifling trivialities are suspended; in which the soul is starved for an inkling of eternal reality; in moments of discerning the indestructibly sudden within the perishably constant.” After more repetitions of the “s” sound coupled with the alliterations of “discerning the indestructibly sudden,” the paragraph ends with a chiasmus: (+) (adv.) (−) (adj.) indestructibly — sudden perishably — constant (−) (adv.) (+) (adj.) that reinforces the combination of hyperbole (“the soul is starved”) and understatement (“for an inkling of eternal reality”). These tropes call attention to the writing qua experience, inciting readers to respond, almost somatically, to the deadly hunger of an abstract faculty, “the soul.” The seventh chapter’s final sentence advances the transition to intuitive certainty by diplomatically reiterating: “There is much we can
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