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In representing the female nautilus as a prototype of love, Moore would have us imagine that a capacity for love is not a human characteristic alone, that love and life are inextricably related. She does not unintentionally indulge in pathetic fallacy, that is, attributing human feelings to an inhuman thing, but rather the reverse: human beings can love because the nub of love is already a part of survival at the level ofmollusks!

Ms. Moore begins her poem with human activities — a head of state hires soldiers to protect him; a celeContinued

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