Notice how on this recording, after the song is over, you can hear the pops and crackles of the vinyl LP from which it was recorded. I bet nobody born after 1975 noticed that! And everyone born before 1975 did.
Gravity has you in its hold
You cannot resist the urge
You cannot motivate your feet you cannot
It pulls and pulls
You cannot resist the urge
You cannot move you cannot dance
You cannot motivate you cannot
Your feet they feel like steel
You cannot feel your heel
You cannot resist the urge
The Hierarchy of Needs conversation with Jane was drawn from my contemporaneous notes, which I used to write the conclusion of a manuscript I was working on at the time, The Burnout of Generation X. The portion of the scene where I discuss this manuscript was dropped from the story. Around the same time, I had the manuscript almost finished but threw it all away in despair that fall. I had written the vast majority of the book pre-diagnosis and was unable to finish it because I didn’t know that person anymore (I allude to this in A Maze With No Exit).
I do wish I could’ve given a better description of the interactions and behavior, the word salads, narcissistic manipulation, and the like, that I experienced at the time. But in those moments I was in a supercharged fight-or-flight state and don’t recall specifics, sort of like trying to recall what you were doing immediately before and after a car accident. Later in the story, Gray Rock and beyond, I had learned that the latter was the intended product of the former, and I had learned the ways to prevent the cycle from commencing by shutting down interactions at the onset, i.e., to Nip It in the Bud (Chapter 11).
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