Anti-Climacus

GRR: I go on a rampage, as you will see:
"I always thought the really key scene in On the Road is the one where Dean gets confronted by all the wives and girlfriends of his friends. He flails around wildly, refuses to accept responsibility for anything, even himself, and ends up looking quite pitiful. He's the ideal of perpetual, idiotic solipsism, narcissism and the juvenile life writ large; he is, in short, a failure as a fully functional human being."