In the Mahler, there is a feeling of nature as the moment in childhood in which everything is in order, and the feeling of loss because as life progresses, it moves farther and farther from that natural state.
This is the part where we get all curious and ask a bunch of questions and she answers them politely, in order, and with feeling.
Moreover, we subconsciously process information to maintain a sense of order and a feeling of competence.
One of the most basic things parents teach their children is that sharing and taking-turns is important to help maintain order and preserve feelings.
"For art had set in order sense / And feeling and intelligence, /And from its ideal order grew/Our local understanding too".
I remember standing outside afterwards in the shadow of the Boston Public Library and its inscription"The Commonwealth Requires the Education of the People as the Safeguard of Order and Liberty -- and feeling like a particular sort of heathen, tipsy and wasteful, having neither enjoyed the drinks nor written anything cogent.
The time saved, the ease of ordering, and the feeling of eating out somehow translates to a juicy premium.
The rest is a jungle of inchoate data that seems deliberately to eschew, like other collective research projects, such human qualities as reason (the reader has to do most of the work of ordering the material) and feeling (if Mr. Harrington sometimes has too much, it is a venial sin compared to the bleakness of this prose).
"In 2018, if you're still spanking your kids, it's because you've been triggered, you are in 'fight or flight' mode, and you're trying to get kids 'in order' and make the feeling go away," she says.
