id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
expositions-1186	none	6. Immortality in Ravelstein	2012	9	.pdf	application/pdf	4714	210	61	In the novel, Chick, who is the narrator, provides an absurd picture of Ravelstein as a Moses- like lawgiver creating a religion for his students and friends based on the Platonic dialogues. Much of the conversation between Chick and Ravelstein is devoted to the discovery and discussion of Chick’s “paradoxical oddities” (109), “absurdities,” and his “unaccountable” tastes, whether these are his strange marriages (to both Rosamund and Vela), his proprietary interest in his solitary vacation home, or his “weaknesses, [his] corrupt shameful secrets” and “thought- murders” (95).	cache/expositions-1186.pdf	txt/expositions-1186.txt