1. The abstract machine links material and semiotic elements, but it does so from a non-discursive, unnameable, unrepeatable point, because it touches upon the focus of non-discursivity which lies at the heart of discursivity.

2. Loren Stein in her Introduction links Ottessa Moshfegh’s name to William Faulkner’s which is a bit of a stretch as there really isn’t any “unnameable quality” in Bettering Myself to make Moshfegh “sound unique” enough to gain entry into that same literary