on being a doctor and ecclesiastes.

So Abernathy has been questioning everyone about the end of the book. Meaning, whether or not we think Binx fixed his existential crisis by becoming a doctor and accepting his role. Maybe even accepting his box.

I don't know how anyone else feels, but I think Binx gave up. I really do feel like the existential crisis needs to be answered by something bigger. As in, you can have any kind of job you want, marry anyone, but the Search is deeper. In some sense, I'm with Bono in that "I still haven't found what i'm looking for." And maybe i'm just projecting myself on to Binx, i don't know. I just feel like Binx simply forgetting the search is not a way to live life. Even if it does meaning being happy in a numb, dead sort of way. It isn't the same thing as answering the search.

this is my favorite thing we've read so far. i like kate and binx. i feel like they know something- they know about despair, about feeling like life is meaningless. They know about the waste land. And there is something liberating in that despair. Because everything is meaningless, and the only thing in life is to turn to God. It's ecclesiastes and elliot and catcher in the rye. i like it.

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