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darkness could be perfect and permanent.
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So, Ruth feels her boundaries overrun when the content of her mind
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and the quality of the world become indistinguishable,
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the darkness in the mind and the body indistinguishable from the
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darkness outside her.
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And this is a positive condition for her, insofar as it seems to
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eliminate the need for things like memories,
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traces, remnants, that list that we're given.
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And I'm going to talk much more about the question of
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loss on Wednesday.
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That's the theme for that lecture on this novel, so I'm going to leave
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that as something for you to think about: what is the status