 Faunia was telling the girl feeding the snake: we leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen — there's no other way to be here.  The Human Stain: A Novel - Page 244by Philip Roth - 2000 - 376 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Mark Shechner - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 276 pages
...The Human Stain. In the words of that novel's Faunia Farley, who is so terribly familiar with defeat, "We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our...excrement, semen — there's no other way to be here." Krupnick concludes: "Sabbath's Theater will someday receive the honor it deserves. It is not didactic... | |
 | Mark Krupnick - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 383 pages
...into a little girl feeding the snake. She offers the child bits of her wisdom and reflects to herself: "We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our...excrement, semen —there's no other way to be here." She is not lamenting Original Sin; on the contrary, she means, as does Roth, to recommend the dissoluteness,... | |
 | Mark Douglas - Religion - 2005 - 292 pages
...contact with. As Faunia, one of the characters in Philip Roth's novel, The Human Stain, describes it: [W]e leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our...imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen—there's no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace... | |
 | Ross Posnock, Associate Professor of English Ross Posnock - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 334 pages
...his life with people like us. The human stain." Nathan then dilates about Faunia's enigmatic comment: "That's how it is — in her own dry way, that is...a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint." One of the oddities of this pivotal scene is that an animal elicits Faunia's (and Nathan's) epiphany... | |
 | Elaine B. Safer - Literary Criticism - 2012 - 232 pages
...wildlife refuge. Roth uses such implications as occasion to indulge, in Rabelaisian style, in synonyms: "We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our...excrement, semen — there's no other way to be here" (242). Zuckerman explains, "All she was saying about the stain was that it's inescapable. That, naturally,... | |
 | Wai Chee Dimock, Lawrence Buell - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 320 pages
...life with people like us. The human stain . . ." Nathan then dilates about Faunia's enigmatic comment: "That's how it is — in her own dry way, that is...a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint." One of the oddities of this pivotal scene is that an animal elicits Faunia's (and Nathan's) epiphany... | |
 | Timothy Parrish - Literary Criticism - 2007
...full of messages that strike one as odd fusions of trailer park dejection and King Lear metaphysics. "We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our...excrement, semen - there's no other way to be here" (2.42). So, she is here to sing the theme song, deliver the valedictory, and to speak for Roth, now... | |
 | John G Sabol Jr. - Education - 2007 - 192 pages
..."what" may be a dramatic event. Sometimes, though, residual hauntings occur due to habitual activities. "We leave a stain, we leave a trail We leave our imprint . . . nothing to do With disobedience. Nothing to do with Grace or salvation or redemption." - Phillip... | |
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