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The confessional--the architectural seed of this polarity--is a cage to which the teller of expiations is temporarily and voluntarily affixed, in order to be free to engage in the commerce of atonement at an agreed-upon rate of exchange. The Bloodguard enact their linear expiations on a substrate of primordial Haruchai culture whose relationship to time is cyclic and "archaic" in Eliade's terms. 64) The best the church can hope for is temporary respite, brief periods of vitality, and above all the benefits of painful scourgings and expiations in what A. |
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