The Seas and Windes (old Wranglers) tooke a Truce, / And did him ſeruice; he touch'd the Ports desir'd,

What with preachers all ayelp, Grinding chaff into barren grists, There's no spare time left for help With the Four Evangelists.

Maybe I'll live long enough to see a newspaper reporter depicted on the screen as a gentleman, not a drunken, blabbermouthed, wise-cracking bum.

Yet when we examine how Mendes's film figures the behind, as it were, behind the father, when we look closely at the film's figurings of anality in the father/son relation, we do not see an insistence that traces of a radical Otherness emerge in figurings of archaic relations and in turn challenge problematic, idealized claims that relations between men can transcend Symbolic mediation.