Although these of interconnected sites of memory seem to resemble those of Bunkse's work, they serve a different purpose, foregrounding the scarcity and
fleetingness of "permanence and predictability"
I may not be so blessed financially and materially, but for me to realize the
fleetingness of the things found here on earth and seek things eternal, I feel loved by God.
Despite all talk of its
fleetingness or elusiveness, the image works excellently as a unit of literary analysis.
The selection of a passion flower is particularly meaningful because most members of the genus passiflora only live for a day, which makes their charm inseparable from their
fleetingness. Funes's memory robs the flower of its transitoriness, devaluing it.
Women either succumb to and perpetuate the monotonous and almost robotic behavior that we see blatantly expressed in the posture and discourse of the young woman in "A Round of Visits" or identify--eagerly or ruefully--with the
fleetingness experienced in its spaces.
Hurston marks both the trancelike intensity of her connection with her white female employer and the
fleetingness of their solidarity.
These essays all effectively contrast the glamour of fame and its
fleetingness, but always with the author's sympathy and thoughtfulness.
fleetingness of all that "Man" devised to create consoling
images, shapes and
fleetingness of lives and history." (39) But
"She has a quickness, a brightness to her work and a
fleetingness to her steps," says Kate Lydon, the Studio Company's artistic director.
(3) Both build to a punchline which is then undercut by a final line of lament for the
fleetingness of life's pleasures, in Smith's case 'Oh my bride, my bride' and in Adcock's 'beneath the summer trees'.
Yet it is precisely the
fleetingness of these visions that allows for a thinking of the films as Utopian.