He also has strong emotions, as when he saves Addie's body from the burning building, "...he appears to be enclosed in a thin nimbus of fire." ... These are depicted in the barn he burns and the river episode. ... Vardaman is full of confusion and loneliness, that he had at one time ran to the barn, where he touches the horses flesh as if he were reaching for his mother: The life in him runs under the skin, under my hand, running through the splotches, smelling us into my nose where the sickness is beginning to cry, vomiting the crying, and then I can breathe, vomiting it. ...

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