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Every act of loss, no matter how trivial, carries in its sense of shame and frustration tremors of larger losses; of Eden, of worlds lost and yet to come, of a sense of purpose, of the hope that the world might stun us with its prodigious beauty not just one day, but every day. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, grief often has this doubled element, as well. As Elaine Scarry notes in her essential book <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Body in Pain<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, suffering can feel like the most visceral thing, lodged in bloods and bone, or the greatest abstraction, an ambient breeze. It has given rise to the most howling art the world has known but seems to live in gaps and silences and speak in muffled tones and the scuffling of chairs at a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>shiva<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">house. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s chapter links Aaron\u2019s grief at the death of his sons with the religious and civic service of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Yom Kippur<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a transition that is also a thesis. We are all of us centaurs, hybrids of the public and private, required to sacrifice publicly and mourn privately, exchanging sons for bulls and the Wilderness for God, even when we feel neither holy nor sacred, but wild and unredeemed, and even incense fails to mask the stench of our own mortality. We don\u2019t know if Aaron was comforted or contorted by his role- perhaps a little bit of both. 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