the sublime in Ghostwritten

    Granted this is only a half-formed idea, but in Ghostwritten this complex web of connections between characters unfolds chapter by chapter. I was trying to picture all of the connections at once, and it is difficult. I began thinking that we are all interconnected in a thousand ways and those ways are ever-changing to such an extent that for a person to try to picture every single way in which they are at all connected to every other person at any given time would be impossible because it is such a vast and fluctuating network. I compare that to Robbin's "Sweatshop Sublime" because the production network is also vast and fluctuating and, therefore, incomprehensible. I suppose my questions are, "Is there a social sublime? Is it easier to imagine ourselves as relatively isolated individuals, and, perhaps, not think so carefully about our choices?"