DFW 2

Pale King, p. 233. Ravissement. Scène où le narrateur juge une jeune Catholique qui l'énerve (p. 214) :

"It's true that her story was stupid and dishonest, but that doesn't mean the experience she had in the church that day didn't happen, or that it's effects on her weren't real. I'm not putting it very well, but I was both right and wrong about her little story. I think the truth is probably that enormous, sudden, dramatic, unexpected, life-changing experience are not translatable or explainable to anyone else, and this is because they really are unique and particular - though not unique in the way the Christian girl believed. This is because their power isn't just a result of the experience itself, but also of the circumstances in which it hits you, of everything in your previous life-experience which has led up to it and made you exactly who and what you are when the experience hits you. Does that make any sense? It's hard to explain."