333 We are helpless and inefficacious parts of a system until we recognize the existence of the system.
Infinite Jest demands emotional connection and empathy as a cure. Does Kaminski do this enough?
Yes, psychiatrist Dr. Rami Kaminski highlights empathy as a defining trait of "otroverts", a personality type he introduced in his book The Gift of Not Belonging: How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners. Rather than lacking social skills, otroverts have an uncanny ability to connect and empathize deeply on a one-on-one basis, although they struggle to belong to social groups.
28 June 4:43 pm Sunday late afternoon
pp 362-378 I just read but can comprehend almost nothing even though the words made sense phrase by phrase and mentioned many things I've read before about but the gist and thrust of these pages and who is telling them evade me.
I will soldier on. If I read the book before, I must have stopped reading it about page 350 +/- and tried to find a cliff notes somewhere or speed read the ending or just have given up with it. Tempted to do that now and go back to Handke. He's in his early 80s now and writing clearly in folk tale modes. Would some sugar and chocolate give my brain the clarity it needs?
449 "Surely you're in a position to see that this eating business masks membranous turmoils far too . . . tumultuous to go into here." Dr Jay says this
hmmmm plain as day, and night
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