Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
Similarly, the book overreaches a bit in its search for transcendent meaning.
Once we lost the transcendent meaning of death, it was a reality to be feared, and euphemized.
The trouble is, "Only Children" fails to achieve any of the transcendent meaning that "The Pigeon" does.
He often plays with the sounds of language, disengaging phonemes from their literal meaning, as if to suggest a more transcendent meaning to the sounds.
If conventional religion no longer worked, they would create a secularist spirituality that filled their lives with transcendent meaning.
Except that the massacre of millions whose only crime was to be born Jewish has no transcendent meaning, no sacred closure.
But the yearning for a transcendent meaning raises new complexities in turn.
The stories are so satisfyingly specific that you don't search them for transcendent meaning.
The name of the Ekavyāvahārikas refers to their doctrine that the Buddha speaks with a single and unified transcendent meaning.