Ickapoo desire meaning. Meaning is spiritual, rather than rational or emotional. The repressive aspects of the emphasis on rationality in Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus takes a dark turn in the Schooldays of Jesus, where reason takes a backseat to passion and David attends a dance school where he is encouraged to enhance his passions and instincts. However this embrace of passion and desire takes a dark turn when Dmitri, a guard at the museum a floor beneath the dance academy, kills Ana Magdalena, the school ballerina and teacher. Where one had expected the abandonment of reason to lead to liberation for David we find instead the unleashing of l**t and violence, madness and criminality. Dmitri kills Ana Magdelena on no grounds apart from the fact that he felt she was too good for him th