- His friends and loved ones wonder why he has such a com...

- His friends and loved ones wonder why he has such a complexly dark relationship to his own physicality, even his corporeal mortality. If in an interview he were to be asked about it, he would simply say "Try growing up deep in the shadow of a degenerative disease and then get back to me." He would then pause, take a drink, and then continue: "Oh, and Roman Catholicism."

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- Now the relationship to the television in the corner. Think of the television people, where they are, the studio, the...