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‘Moms ?’ ‘I am right here with my attention completely focused on you.’ ‘How can you tell if somebody’s sad ?’ A quick smile. ‘You mean whether somebody’s sad.’ A smile back, but still earnest : ‘That improves it a lot. Whether someone’s sad, how can you tell so you’re sure ?’ (…) ‘You’re not exactly insensitive when it comes to people, Love-o,’ she says. ‘What if you, like, only suspect somebody’s sad. How do you reinforce the suspicion ?’ ‘Confirm the suspicion ?’ ‘In your mind’ (…) ‘Well the person in question may cry, sob, weep, or, in certain cultures, wail, keen, or rend his or her garments. (…) He or she might alternatively sigh, mope, frown, smile halfheartedly, appear downcast, slump, look at the look floor more than is appropriate.’ ‘But what if they don’t ?’ ‘Well, he or she may act by seeming distracted, losing enthusiasm for previous interests. The person may present with what appears to be laziness, lethargy, fatigue, sluggishness, a certain passive reluctance to engage you. Torpor.’ ‘What else ?’ ‘They may seem unusually subdued, quit, literally « low ».’ (…) ‘What if sometime they might act even les slow than normal. But still these suspicions are in your mind.’ (Infinite Jest,764)
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