The DJ said:
<<At most, he keeps himself from being sucked into the
void.>>
And he [the detective or other independent thingfixer] keeps
himself busy with what, for lack of a better word, I will
call honest work. It's real work, it beats ninetofiving, and
it must bring some moral satisfaction.
Now the question: what kind of satisfaction does, say, John
Marshall Tanner get out of his thingfixing? Could he be
labelled a total loser or is he an existential hero --that
is, a total loser sanctioned by a Philosophical
Movement?
This is no joke: I was mentally going over a list of fixers
and damn if I could understand why they do what they do.
Don't tell me it was nobility of character: that's a rare
quality and I don't see why fixers would have more than the
general population.
Best,
MrT
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