[Teaching a university class.]
In American literature, the descent into madness is usually preceded by obsession. A consuming obsession. Example, anyone?
[The class is unresponsive.]
Alright, I'll get you started. Moby Dick. What characterizes Ahab's obsession?
[Goren raises his hand in the back of the room.]
Yes. In the back.
[Wallace realizes that it is Goren.]
The dogged, unrelenting pursuit of evil.
Interesting. Evil. I always fancied it was man's unrelenting pursuit of his own potency.
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