Yeah. I read that sentence with utter astonishment. A few paras on it became clear that he knew that, it was just that he was using a fake "isn't it odd?" to introduce the actual subject. Which was, to me, nearly as bad. If there's one thing that can reliably piss me off, it's being treated like I'm stupid. Why not just start the topic by saying it straight out?
But he seemed prone to that sort of statement. He made a different "isn't it odd" thing when he said earlier in the book, with no further qualification, that it was mysterious how sometimes at moments of pain we feel most alive. This is not mysterious, it's a function of the neurotransmitters we release during stress. I mean, that system in and of itself is very interesting and strange on its own level, but not mysterious the way he was putting it. And that was weird for someone who supposedly had been doing lots of research into pain.
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Date: 2007-07-02 06:07 pm (UTC)But he seemed prone to that sort of statement. He made a different "isn't it odd" thing when he said earlier in the book, with no further qualification, that it was mysterious how sometimes at moments of pain we feel most alive. This is not mysterious, it's a function of the neurotransmitters we release during stress. I mean, that system in and of itself is very interesting and strange on its own level, but not mysterious the way he was putting it. And that was weird for someone who supposedly had been doing lots of research into pain.