Fear in the Damp and Dark DitchThe usual French feminist meaning of "ditch" transformed by Jack Bushnell from silent entrapment to a meaning that means "ditch" as which liberates the other and allows the generation of a voice from the other's own Circus of Wolves. The famous masculine opposition – self and feminine – other will be freely used with man and the circus representing the first and Kael and nature the second. Gaps appear literally and figuratively throughout the text and with each appearance its meaning slowly, slowly changes in the manner previously noted. Jack Bushnell says in an "Author's Note" that the wolf (other) world is "a natural world as distinct and separate from the human (self) world as possible." In other words, the place of the Other is separated, banished and excluded from the sphere of the self. The circus and the man are self to the extent that they confine, exploit, and attempt to support the beauty and wonder of the other by conforming the other to the mold and manner of the self. Before going any further, it should be noted that any appearance of anthropomorphizing the wolf is just that: appearance. It is the place of the Other which receives the essences of the human and not of Kael in and by itself. Since Kael occupies the place of the Other, the anthropomorphic transgression will seem to apply to the wolf even though no real transgression has taken place. However, Kael must understand that he occupies the place of the Other. Kael falls into the breach constructed by his oppressors "...the humidity and darkness at the bottom of the hole frightened Kael." Kael's fear is that of confinement and the discovery of himself as other...... middle of paper ...... he frees himself through the void left by his oppressors. The man allows Kael to escape. He has learned to know the beauty and power of others and can no longer confine them. By acquiring the knowledge that reveals the nature of the divide, Kael has discovered the means of using the “divide” to liberate the other from self-oppression. He found the power of his own language and his ability to move away from his world and put himself in the place of the Other. Jack Bushnell found in Kael a character capable of injecting the emotional synergy of the other into the gap. dismissing its existence as a simple lacunar, voiceless absence. The place of the Other radiates with its own incandescent radiance, bubbling with the increasing volume of the new choral power......O...Cirque des Loups, Lothrop, Lee and Shepherd 1993