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Blindfolded Arslanian and the annulation seminar (pp. 568–569)

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‘Rog on the mole. Except that’s not what’s depressing the Booger this time. This one we decided we’d describe him as more like anxiously depressed than depressed.’ ‘One can be depressed of different types?’ ‘Boy are you young, Ars. The Booger’s got himself convinced he’s going to get the academic Boot. […] He’s thought himself into a brainlock of anxiety. He’s in there clutching his skull with Lyle and Mario, and some of the like less kind guys in there have a pool going on whether Lyle can pull him back from the brink.’

Context

Pemulis briefs Arslanian on Anton Doucette's crisis, and Arslanian's naive question — "One can be depressed of different types?" — flags in miniature the taxonomy the book builds at full length in the anhedonia/It essay. The pool the "less kind guys" run on whether Lyle can pull him back from the brink is despair as wagering entertainment.

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