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…showed last 75 words of 325 total…Gabriel is in fact "delicate" like Michael Furey, and he is not 'spiritually dead' as people seem to want to say. Although, Gabriel remains with his longing for absorption into a different culture than the one he knows and feels imprisoned in. This fantasy allows him a way to live in some pure realm unconnected with politics, and with his complete inability to read his sexuality about his wife in any other way than "lust".