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Literary Imagination Advance Access originally published online on December 5, 2008
Literary Imagination 2009 11(1):83-98; doi:10.1093/litimag/imn059
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"Beowulf" and the Emergent Occasion

Andrew Scheil*

*Andrew Scheil, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA. E-mail: ascheil@umn.edu

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The years had passed like a shadow, unnoted, uncounted, and had brought him to this point of pause, of change momentous, when he must needs look before and after.1
There is a difference between one and another hour of life, in their authority and subsequent effect. Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. For this reason, the argument which is always forthcoming to silence those who conceive extraordinary hopes of man, namely, the appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain. We give up the past to the objector, and yet we hope.2

Change has always been the presiding author of our lives. Whether incremental or swift, unexpected or foreseen, change demarcates our perception of time and time's ongoing narrative expression. As the narrative . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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