The intimacy program — fiction as a mind the reader is in relation with, whose sound the reader recognizes as his own

echoes

Early text: [scene] He rejects the boredom framing: what he wants is intimacy — the literature he loved as a kid and student let him relate to a character and to a mind telling him a story, unlike Thomas Mann, whom he calls not intimate; his target is that the reader recognize that this is how the reader's own mind sounds, boring stretches included, because thinking and talking with people are like that too [q18]; underneath it, the epistemic setup — every interior subjective, self-deceiving, drowning in perspectives — is why the straight way cannot describe the present [q16]
IJ echo: the oeuvre-wide communication/solipsism spine; the fiction-as-anti-loneliness program stated to McCaffery in 1993 (mccaffery-1993-interview) and restated autobiographically at City Arts 2004 (city-arts-lectures-2004-kipen)
Weight: shared-preoccupation