Do 'all the elements of seria' really 'pass onstage in a gaudy farewell parade' in the first finale (p. 19)?
To him, certainly, retirement does not mean a farewell to intellectual production.
There are no sad farewells at the local taverns or the corner store because there are no local taverns or corner stores.
He also describes one grand passion and how he asked his eldest son to place his beloved's farewell letter on his funeral pyre.
Even their gaiety seemed to be of the forced kind often associated with a particularly painful farewell.
It wasn't a formal procession, instead everybody bade him farewell as the mood took them.
Accepting his destiny, he bids farewell to the pain and love of the upper world and vanishes forever into an underground chasm.
It's a pattern that decrescendos to an ethereal farewell.
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