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Steeply's father and M*A*S*H (p. 641)

quote

As a child, this is when it became impossible to ignore the odor of obsession about the whole thing. The secrecy about the notebook, and the secrecy about the secrecy.

Context

The father's notebook phase: "the secrecy about the secrecy" — the same second-order fold as Joelle's shame-about-shame (p. 536) and hiding-the- hiding (p. 535). Obsession goes annular when it starts taking itself as object.

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