[RightWhale]

Consider that Shane IS Joe. Joe IS Shane. An alter ego that most people are capable of displaying when it's crunch time.

[parsifal]

I did, but then Shane and Joe fought at the same time in the bar fight. I almost could see Shane as a "Parsifal"figure who came to heal a wounded land, except that the symbols are all wrong. The farm was fertile and blossoming when Shane first got there.

That puts us back to the physical love scenarios. parsy the wannabee literary critic.