Ah! Here we have a proper tableau, placed upon an “invisible battleground of socio-psychological scars.” Atomization, alienation, fragmented communities, a pervasive loneliness, a vacuous intellectualism that cannot penetrate our inauthentic lives. Fabulist, phoniness, cinematic, play-acting, etc.

“I don’t think life can be like these strange worlds which bar reentry once the doors close.”