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| − | |<font color="red">'''It'''</font> is a level of psychic pain wholly incompatible with human life as we know it. <font color="red">'''It'''</font> is a sense of radical and thoroughgoing evil not just as a feature but as the essence of conscious existence. <font color="red">'''It'''</font> is a sense of poisoning that pervades the self at the self's most elementary levels. <font color="red">'''It'''</font> is a nausea of the cells and soul. <font color="red">'''It'''</font> is an unnumb intuition in which the world is fully rich and animate and un-map-like and also thoroughly painful and malignant and antagonistic to the self, which depressed self <font color="red">'''It'''</font> billows on and coagulates around and wraps in <font color="red">'''Its'''</font> black folds and absorbs into <font color="red">'''Itself'''</font>, so that an almost mystical unity is achieved with a world every constituent of which means painful harm to the self. <font color="red">'''Its'''</font> emotional character, the feeling Gompert describes <font color="red">'''It'''</font> as, is probably mostly indescribable except as a sort of double bind in which any/all of the alternatives we associate with human agency—sitting or standing, doing or resting, speaking or keeping silent, living or dying—are not just unpleasant but literally horrible.
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| − | —David Foster Wallace, ''Infinite Jest''
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