When memory loss associated with ECT is presented as a discrete, abstract possibility (e.g. memory loss only inhibiting the ability to recall some information), it is taken for granted that side effects are, first and foremost, lived by a body-subject who is engaged and practically directed towards the world.
Perfume samples aside, I'll engage in practically any compulsive behavior to escape the depression I forget that I have: sexting, internet attention-seeking, dating apps, food restriction, food rituals, and in the old days, drugs and alcohol.
And yet, it is anything but dry due to its rhythmic tone (at times calling to mind the propulsive chug-a-chug-a-chug-a of a train) and illustrations so engaging you practically have to shake the sepia-toned dust out of your hair at the end of the ride.
She never married, though at one time she was "practically engaged".
In 1929, she was "practically engaged" to one man, and suggested to him that it might be difficult being married to a woman who could not hear well.
"Being a child when the state was practically engaged in making children healthy and literate was a support against my own circumstances," she writes.
Ms. Hepburn was 28 at the time, practically engaged to the agent Leland Hayward but reported to be seeing Charles Boyer and getting along very well (eventually) with George Stevens, who directed -- Sunday at 8 a.m. on TCM.
I think Robert Kee is right when he says that the clue to James MacGibbon - his practically engaged political idealism, his energy and curiosity - was his innocence, in the most active sense of the word.
So long as I am practically engaged, in short, all things appear to have reasons for being, and I, correlatively, experience myself as fully at home in the world.
Because I am no longer practically engaged, the meaning that had previously inhabited the thing as the density of its being now stares back at me as a mere name, as something I "know" but which no longer claims me.
