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For women like this, The Rules might seem like a way of setting boundaries on a personality that has none, of giving a sense of purpose and structure to a life that seems "empty" (a recurrent word), of offering women who fear they are worthless a way of acting as if they were precious--"a creature unlike any other"--in the hope that the pose may become reality.
Shortly before his death in 1973, after Darger moved out to a nursing home, his landlord opened up his room and discovered, amid piles of presumably artistic debris (hundreds of pairs of smashed eyeglasses, balls of string, old pairs of shoes, scores of empty Pepto-Bismol bottles), one 2,600-page autobiography, an 11-year weather log, 87 watercolors, 67 pencil drawings, and the tale of the Vivian Girls.
This family's weird habits include, for example, assuming that when you see something--a woman, a mountain, an empty soda can--the appropriate response is not to decide how you feel about what you see but to think of tautly composed phrases in which to describe it.
McCartney's album occasions re-evaluations of the most mainstream Beatle--turns out he's not the empty tunesmith he seemed in the '70s and '80s.
One must be very cautious in proposing etymologies that attribute the origin of a word to playfulness or frivolity: they often turn out to be folk etymologies and totally empty of anything more than hollow speculation.