With Dancing on the Edge, though, the glacial pace never feels to have such narrative or psychological justification.
Hideous events occur with less psychological justification than they'd require in a Hollywood blockbuster -- there's not even a difficult childhood to account for the psychopathic Dmitri, and the novel's bloodbath of a climax is frankly willful.
What began as a minority sect's rhetorical strategy, a way of defining and asserting itself, became a majority religion's moral, and even psychological, justification for persecution: first of Jews, then of Romans and of heretics — of all opponents, real or imagined.
In their very form, these novels, in which conflict finds neither psychological justification nor narrative resolution, register "Indian problems" with a cartographer's watchtower remove: Narayan is showing us the shape of a people being strangled by the contour of their land.
Later contributors to the corpus of ideas that underlie the processes of teacher education continued to provide philosophical, sociological, and psychological justification for particular views of the nature of education and of teaching, and also had a greater or lesser influence on the methods to be employed in classroom and school.
As thus, it plays a big role in the psychological justification for defecting from competitors.
It's apparently the most common psychological justification for tales of spiritual possession and evil sightings when rudely awakened at 2 AM (shoutout to the Bent Neck Lady).
May's suggestion, that FGCS only be permissible when there is a physical or psychological justification, becomes redundant when definitions are this subjective.
Behind such tortured psychological self-justification lies an aesthetic consideration familiar to anyone who has ever gone fishing: the experience he actually went through wasn't nearly as compelling as the one he wrote down.
But don't underestimate the role of that sort of psychological self-justification.
