He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed | love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.
我能领会到这个地方的lacking使用方法像without，但lacking是形容词，没介词的使用方法；假如这里是动词lack的ing形式，麻烦剖析一下这种使用方法；谢谢！
我看这里的lacking实质是目前分词，但这里起介词用途，等于without. 由于此文源于威廉福克纳的演讲词，作家有时会把词性活用。事实上，lacking的这种使用方法是罕见的。即便英语为母语的人都不适合模仿。
你可以参考一下WR外国网友的解答。https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/lacking|which|any|story|is|ephemeral|and|doomed.3173172/
