Jia Tolentino

You know, like I think kind of Chelsea's kind of does. Chelsea is a wackadoo. Like, hey, read this book about how we're all sorted into groups one through 12. And if we're in, you know. And we're both in group seven, and so that means we're something to each other. But she's right. Chelsea has a belief in something beyond the visible and given, and it's an extremely open-ended one.

You know, like I think kind of Chelsea's kind of does. Chelsea is a wackadoo. Like, hey, read this book about how we're all sorted into groups one through 12. And if we're in, you know. And we're both in group seven, and so that means we're something to each other. But she's right. Chelsea has a belief in something beyond the visible and given, and it's an extremely open-ended one.

It's one that does not seek to establish or control anything. It's just her entire belief system is that there's something beyond this, and there's something we can do with that. And that I think she's kind of probably objectively correct in that she's— kind of vindicated.

It's one that does not seek to establish or control anything. It's just her entire belief system is that there's something beyond this, and there's something we can do with that. And that I think she's kind of probably objectively correct in that she's— kind of vindicated.

And then the other ones that I think like their belief systems, like they're ones that obviously don't, like most of the Ratliffs, their whole belief system is going down the tubes.

And then the other ones that I think like their belief systems, like they're ones that obviously don't, like most of the Ratliffs, their whole belief system is going down the tubes.

Yeah, right. And again, it's a belief system that does not – it doesn't seek to establish a rigidity of like this is how you should be, this is how you shouldn't. Like Laughlin is like – it's the motion of it. So it's Laughlin and it's – Chelsea, and I think it's Lori, too. You know, like, I think what she says at dinner is really nice.

Yeah, right. And again, it's a belief system that does not – it doesn't seek to establish a rigidity of like this is how you should be, this is how you shouldn't. Like Laughlin is like – it's the motion of it. So it's Laughlin and it's – Chelsea, and I think it's Lori, too. You know, like, I think what she says at dinner is really nice.

It's like, then I realize that perhaps the meaning is just simply that I have existed, and so have you.

It's like, then I realize that perhaps the meaning is just simply that I have existed, and so have you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's something in here about whose sense of self is capacious enough to accommodate multiplicity. Like, the people whose sense of self and sense of identity fails are the ones who understand their identity to be one of It's the most rigid ones, right? It's like Victoria.

There's something in here about whose sense of self is capacious enough to accommodate multiplicity. Like, the people whose sense of self and sense of identity fails are the ones who understand their identity to be one of It's the most rigid ones, right? It's like Victoria.

It's like probably Jacqueline and Kate, you know, that their sense of self and identity is just very firmly in a bounded, checkmarked, good, admirable, visible, you know, and that is me and everything else is folded into that narrative. And the people whose senses of self don't trap them, but...

It's like probably Jacqueline and Kate, you know, that their sense of self and identity is just very firmly in a bounded, checkmarked, good, admirable, visible, you know, and that is me and everything else is folded into that narrative. And the people whose senses of self don't trap them, but...

ground them and free them or whatever are the people it seems to me whose senses of self are firm insofar as they are open-ended perhaps all the way to frank who seems to be able to accommodate a 45-hour crack binge or whatever too and he's just like yeah i'm in my underwear stabbing this mannequin and tomorrow i'll be doing my ablutions at the temple or whatever

ground them and free them or whatever are the people it seems to me whose senses of self are firm insofar as they are open-ended perhaps all the way to frank who seems to be able to accommodate a 45-hour crack binge or whatever too and he's just like yeah i'm in my underwear stabbing this mannequin and tomorrow i'll be doing my ablutions at the temple or whatever

You kind of get the impression with Frank, you know, who's like, okay, here's my meth and my knife. And shift five of hookers from nightclub downstairs or whatever. And the next day I'll be back at the temple. I don't know if this is my personal projection onto this character. You're like, I get it. Do you know what I mean?

You kind of get the impression with Frank, you know, who's like, okay, here's my meth and my knife. And shift five of hookers from nightclub downstairs or whatever. And the next day I'll be back at the temple. I don't know if this is my personal projection onto this character. You're like, I get it. Do you know what I mean?