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ChairmanUzamaoki OP t1_j66vjnn wrote

Reply to comment by AshnodsBong in What is the meaning of the depth Patrick Bateman goes into about music in American Psycho? by ChairmanUzamaoki

My point was why dedicate multiple chapters to music? There are no entire chapters (iirc) dedicated to clothes, stereo equipment or evem restaurant reservations. When he talks about music, everything else seems to evaporate away, unlike the rest of his consumer bullshit. But apparently he was memorizing other music reviews and regurgitating them which makes way more sense in the fitting in terms.

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AshnodsBong t1_j66vsu5 wrote

I think its like in moby dick how many chapters are dedicated to long rants about whaling which seem boring but beneath the surface is a man taking the only greater power he can actually comprehend (whales/music) and using that to try and interpret the wider world. But because Patrick is only dedicating himself to pop music and surface level concerns he's never going to discover his sense of humanity.

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