The correct answer is:
"Psalm" suggests that the passage of time cannot defeat the soul, while "Auspex" indicates that it can.
"A Psalm of Life", usually subtitled "What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist", is a poem composed by American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) was an American poet and diplomat.
They both were part of the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers among the first American poets who competed with British poets.
I think the author chose to start the book 19 years before the main events of the story so the reader could absorb things. The author technically wanted the reader(s) to understand something before reading the real story.
Assuming that you're referring to the excerpt about a woman who was criticized because she's not quitting her job because she got a baby
She felt that the man is simple minded and simply not intelligent enough understand that she need the job to pay the bills, so rather than responding verbally, she chose to display her retort in other ways
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