Loneliness named again as the unifier of everything he writes — here specialized to double binds inside relationships
echoes
From: Bookworm phone follow-up — DFW by phone from his home in Illinois (KCRW, August 3, 2000)
- Early text:
[scene] The Brief Interviews book, if unified by
anything, is about loneliness in relationships; double binds and the
Maugham Appointment-in-Samarra figure resonate for him not intellectually
but as the way things are [01:33:27–01:33:56]
- IJ echo: the oeuvre-wide communication/solipsism spine;
within IJ, the double-bind machinery Silverblatt cites is the students'
dysfunctional-double-binds exam (print-verification lead recorded in the working notes)
- Weight: shared-preoccupation