Creative Freedom in Nabby and the Pynch

[Terrance]

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> In a message dated 6/16/03 6:19:52 AM, lycidas2 at earthlink.net writes:
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> << I beg your pardon? What is the question begged? Does P believe in
> individuality? The self? Wha?
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>  >>
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> Not as an objective vantage point, which, by extension, begins
> to degrade the romantic notion of the subjective self. Slothrop's
> progress is offset by a loosening of the boundaries of his
> individuality, and the American reflexes which held him together.
> 

In what sense is the notion of the  subjective self romantic?