TR Gaddis tears into Dale Carnegie Pt 2 ch 1

[David Payne]

> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:36:35 -0700, markekohut at yahoo.com wrote:

> Why does Gaddis cap "Self"?....must play into whatever is/are the
> meaning(s)...???

Well that's a good point that suggests my interpretation was wrong (or at least incomplete), especially since that's the only time Gaddis capped "Self" in this novel (except for one other time, also in this sentence, when the word was part of the title of a book). 
 
Gaddis also capped Individualized and Doubt in this whopper of sentence:
 
 
Behind was a veneered secretary of anonymous century and unavowed design, holding protected behind glass an assortment of books published by the hundred-thousand, treatises on the cultivation of the individual self, prescriptions of superficial alterations in vulgarity read with excruciating eagerness by men alone in big chairs, the three-way lamp turned to its wildest brilliance as they fingered those desperate blazons of individuality tied in mean knots at their throats, fastened monogrammed tie-clasps the more firmly, swung keys on gold-plated monogram-bearing ("Individualized") key-chains, tightened their arms against wallets in inside pockets which held the papers proving their identity beyond doubt to others and in moments of Doubt to themselves, papers in such variety that the bearer himself became their appurtenance, each one contemplating over words in a book (which had sold four million copies: How to Speak Effectively; Conquer Fear; Increase Your Income; Develop Self-Confidence; "Sell" Yourself and Your Ideas; Improve Your Memory; Increase Your Ability to Handle People; Win More Friends; Improve Your Personality; Prepare for Leadership) the Self which had ceased to exist the day they stopped seeking it alone.