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The helplessness of Lucia in this fantasy, and the idea of "Bacchus ravisht by his tree," may make us uneasy on feminist grounds; but the corrective reality of the last line--the physical fact of the helpless erection--corrects and undermines the imagination's unreal fantasy of domination.
I am feeling helpless.
I feel helpless, and I worry for her.
He can pee gasoline, walk through fire, induce visions, and even resurrect the dead, but when it comes to the simple task of locating Christine--which everyone else seems to be able to do with relative ease--he's so helpless he has to break into Jericho's apartment and badger him for her whereabouts.
The fast-paced pressure of their overscheduled lives has produced a balkiness in their hurried children--and in their own harried selves--that they feel helpless to deal with.