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the neurasthenia of Descartes's Meditations

of the survival strategies apposite one's existence as monad in a world of diffracted fact

range from classical prosody to Dutch oils to Baroque quartets

Her world is "empty" of all but data that are like the holes in a reticular pattern

The basic argument here is that Mr. Markson, by drawing on a definitive atomistic metaphysics and transfiguring it into art, has achieved something like the definitive anti-melodrama. He has made facts sad. For Kate's existence itself is that of an atomic fact, her loneliness metaphysically ultimat…