“His tooth pains him, but his pain pains me.”

Read along: The Ego and Its Own, Part II, Ch. 2.2 ("My Intercourse")

Hello friends,

I hope your summer has been going swimmingly, and if you’ve been reading this regularly, that you’ve enjoyed the break. This week’s reading got me thinking back to a revelation a former High School teacher shared after our class pulled a prank one day when we all simultaneously rose from our chairs and acted as zombies for exactly one minu…