“[The Pearl Maiden tells her father] he will be disappointed forever if his object of joy is anything but God.” --Jordan Lettau
“[The Pearl Maiden] is frustrated that [the Dreamer] turns her death, which was a good thing for her, into a bad thing.” --Janey Schell
“Both Dante the Pilgrim and our Dreamer are two mortal human beings who are trying, and failing miserably, to relate to women who have transcended the material realm.” --Jonathan Frady
“When people are told what they want to hear, they do not learn anything.” Audrey Olsen
“[The Dreamer’s] ‘quest,’ in the literal sense, is a quest for his daughter. But in another sense, it is a quest to find himself.” --Tom Barlow
“Men find God through their love for women, for in learning to love a woman, a man opens his heart to loving God and becomes receptive to Divine Love, which is the loves that saves.” --Christina Berring
[gleaned from papers at the end of term Spring 2008]
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