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...actual writing doesn’t do a better job of motivating his arguments, because he does occasionally make truly insightful observations. In a chapter titled “Hunting Instincts” he compares the theatrical experience to that of a hunt, insofar as the audience experiences a primal drive to follow the plot along. He uses this metaphor to account for the suspension of disbelief: “We suspend the rational process of intellectualization, which is to say, of the comparison of phenomenon to idea, which is a process too slow for the hunt...
Noriega said that this focus inspired the genesis of primal screen therapy, which influenced psychotherapy...
...then Chaudry lost it. It’s understandable for an athlete of his caliber to have a primal desire to win, but Baset, not only did you ruin it for yourself, you ruined it for your competition (and an eager squash audience...