Blindfolded Arslanian and the annulation seminar (p. 573)
And this is what the Boog’s saying is eating him alive the worst, conceptually. He says he’s toast if he can’t wrap his head around the concept of time in flux, conceptually. It jacklights him for the whole annular model overall. Granted, it’s abstract. But you should see him. One half of the face is like spasming around while the half with the mole just like hangs there staring like a bunny you’re about to run over.
Context
The crisis's conceptual core: Doucette's block about Concavity time-in-flux, "eating him alive" — depression rendered as being devoured by an abstraction he can't metabolize. Lyle walking him "real slowly through the most basic kiddie-physical principles" is the scene's only working therapy.