Springing way out of P, stranger things than in ............

[Mark Kohut]

I continued some reading of Ortega y Gassett, Spanish Catholic Existentialist 
Humanist, yes, I'm winking.

Specifically, a collection of lectures and essays published in English (by 
Norton)
in the mid-fifties...........pieces from 30s to the 50s.

Repetitive, many concepts recycled within these pieces and I'm sure
from other books but two things struck me, one Pynchonianly strange...

First, full of a condemnation of living by things, materialistically, by 
acquiring things, with lines
about going inward rather than staying on the surface (with things)...OK, many 
others including
TRP argue(d) for such...and it is vague in Gassett, just a contrasting 
direction.......

but there is also this: When trying to make the existentialism-like case for 
'living one's own
life', feeling and thinking oneself not in the fashions of the day, he often 
uses the example
of a toothache to embody how unique are our own experiences/feelings; a 
toothache can't be 

lived by anyone else and at one point he even seems to say (in other words):

THE DENTIST IS OUR CONTEMPORARY THERAPIST!..................

Ah "V.", richer than we yet know....