"Not Wanted On The Voyage" by Timothy Findley.

The post-modern novel Not Wanted On The Voyage by Timothy Findley employ's phallic symbols and denounces them. The author has chosen to do this because it is an effective way of explaining the masculine power demonstrated in the novel, specifically, the treatment of the symbols. One example that will be explored is the horn of the Unicorn and how it is totally misused in a gruesome and explicit scene. The symbols are employed by the …

…world, on the brink of its discovery she is inexplicably moved to prayer, a remnant of the world she once would willingly leave behind. Refusing to pray to "the absent God"(p352), she instead targets "the absent clouds"(p352). It seems that all Mrs Noyes can do-- all any of us can do in the face of a world with no answers or authority save for what we provide ourselves -- is pray for rain.