I am more interested in the so-called illogical impringements of the connotations of words on the consciousness (and their combinations and interplay in metaphor on the basis) than I am interested in the preservation of the logically rigid signification at the cost of limiting my subject matter and perceptions. --Hart Crane Is life really full of logicality? Visualize yourself in a world where everything made "logical" sense. There is no creativity and individuality. "Oh, you …showed first 75 words of 1350 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1350 total…all of the metaphors together to form the many different meanings and purposes of the story. Also, the last two paragraphs clarify Updike's style of conveying the meaning of the story--through a confused man's perspective. He is unable to commit to something--always afraid of what might happen in the future. Vision, timidly, becomes percussion, percussion becomes music, music becomes emotions, emotions becomes--vision. Few of us have the heart to follow the circle to its end.