me. “Psychologists don’t really have a word for the feeling that he creates, but to me it goes back to the older existentialists, to a nostalgia for unity, a feeling of uncanniness. It’s unnerving. You want to find your way back to meaning, and that’s what we think helps you to extract these very complex patterns in this artificial grammar, and perhaps essential patterns in much more that we’re asked to study.” When we describe ourselves as being “lost” in some class or subject, that sentiment can be self-fulfilling, a prelude to failure or permission to disengage entirely, to stop trying. For
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