Blindfolded Arslanian and the annulation seminar
Incidentally, the arrhythmic meaty whacking sound is Booger hitting himself in the thigh and chest in there, which self-abuse is a textbook symptom of an anxiously depressed episode.
Context
Mid-lecture on the fusion triangle, Pemulis glosses the soundtrack through the weight-room door. The dry "textbook symptom" register — a seventeen- year-old narrating a peer's self-abuse like a case-conference aside — is how E.T.A. metabolizes psychic crisis: fluent, accurate, unalarmed.