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the vase, the wanderer has freed both himself and his past. As Mendell<br />

says:<br />

Los momentos iniciales de la vida imaginativa se colocan<br />

en la ni"nez. Todas las experieneias, el aprendizaje><br />

el imaginar constante de esa edad son un rico deposito<br />

en espera del adulto que debe volver al pasado - al foso -<br />

y traer al nifro a la luz. Si bien el nigo es padre del<br />

adultoe porque en 61 estä la posibilidad de la obra fu-<br />

tura, el adulto debe libera 12 primero a su propia nin-ez 13<br />

el obstäculo es el tiempo.<br />

The concept of tao symbolized by the vase has been recaptured. It seems<br />

from this study that two characters at least from this chapter are recogni-<br />

zable after all. Lezama chooses to review the major themes of Paradiso in<br />

this little allegory of man and boy, but others invade the final scene in<br />

which they meet.<br />

Having handed over the gift to the child, the wanderer feels in command<br />

of himself in new ways: "Sentfa que la fuerza impelente del patio de su casa<br />

se habia extinguido en 61, pero que al mismo tiempo habla nacido, para re-<br />

emplazar a la anterior, una fuerza de absorci6n, especialmente constituida<br />

para atraerlo a su centro absorbente" (1.558). He hopes to find in the<br />

night "su destino, su anankd, huevo cascado, fruta. abierta" (1,558) and the<br />

author promises him just that: "Y al final, todavia no lo sabia, se encon-<br />

traria con una. ecuacidn, una urna de cristal" (1,559). Both Atrio Flami-<br />

nio and Juan Longo have also been trying to avoid death (as opposed to the<br />

loss of childhood) and it is in Juan Longo's urn that he discovers the image<br />

of the child, himself: "Le lleg6 su turno y asom6 la cara con natural indi'-<br />

ferencia. Un lento escalofrfo lo petrific(5, lo recorri6 como un relSmpago<br />

que se extendiese por todo su Arbol nervioso. Vio al garzon que le habfa<br />

abierto la puerta., recogiendo la jarra danesa" (1,559). The sight of the<br />

dead child may shock him, but it also affords him even greater liberation:<br />

la noche astillada mostraba su absorci6n en la otra ribera<br />

del rio. Pudo Ilegar a la otra rmrgene dando saltos de

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