The exotic new facts of Ennet House
That it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak. That you don’t have to hit somebody even if you really really want to. That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
Context
From the second-person catalogue of "exotic new facts" an Ennet House residency teaches you, where it sits flat in the list between poached eggs, sneezes, and crab lice. This is the Abiding doctrine's first statement in the book — offered two hundred pages early, disguised as just another fact — the seed of 166's second-between-heartbeats teaching and of Gately actually living it on the Trauma Ward (169, 173).