the other, and the other retaliating in the same fears, prejudices, and control devices that lead to power struggles for both sides in a balance that is in reality unyielding on either side. Philbert is both a perceived simpleton and wisely simplistic in his expressions of belief and dependence on his own determinations while allowing Buddy to interject as long as Philbert can gather his totem power fetishes to complete his journey to bettering himself, while enriching the qualities of Buddy's life that are lacking in the process, such as temperament and tolerances to Philbert's beliefs as well as that of the white culture. In the end, Buddy and everyone else involved is rewarded in the fashion of truth in a spiritual sense that rekindles the problematic system each and everyone of us is both master and slave of.
             One of the most self-educating and difficult prose's that I had ever had the pleasure of writing wa
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