so , had dalores said , shocked by the simplicity of the statement ... the direction the statement clarified..the celebrating it kicked off thanks-giving : how they began and so ended , with a ritual of thanks-giving ... tonight , of a thanks-giving for frank , each imitating himan imitatio dei imitating : remembering , recalling , making him present in and through and with them , as each became frank as cunnilingual lover ... worshipper at the goddess throne ... refreshing himself at her font of wisdombold adventurer passing through her gate of heavenbeing him as they consumed him , inhaled him , swallowed him , returned him , reincorporated him , reimagined him as that part of themselves of which each was the wholethe whole is greater than the sum of the parts .