Reverence toward the unverifiable, against corrosive skepticism — the stance Infinite Jest's AA doctrine also…
echoes
From: All That
- Early text: The story's explicit thesis is that "the most
powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible
to us", which the narrator takes as "a compelling argument for religious
reverence rather than skeptical empiricism"; the magic he prizes "could not,
not ever, be trapped or outsmarted."
- IJ echo: The Boston AA / White Flag doctrine of surrender — that the program
works whether or not you believe or understand it, and that analysis is the
enemy of recovery (scene 074, pp. 343-367).
- Weight: shared-preoccupation