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If I am not mistaken, I shed tears during the conclusion of, White Gold Wielder, the last book in the second trilogy of, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
Assuming I recall correctly, my emotional reaction was a response to Covenant, the series' protagonist, experiencing catharsis.
I speculate that I was moved to tears on account or relating with the following particular aspect of the protagonist's character: his chronic and unrelenting psychic tension (along the lines of neuroticism).
The premise of the series is such that Thomas Covenant wakes up in an alternative world/reality subsequent to being hit by a police car (immediately prior to being hit by a police car, Covenant has an encounter with a curiously robed beggar, who makes several cryptic pronouncements, and leaves Covenant with the admonition to "be true.").
The premise in and of itself, structurally, accommodates my appetite for reading as "escape". Covenant's position* - the sheer black and white of it (as one discovers while the series develops) - appeals to my own tendency for black and white thinking.
To elaborate upon my own experience/habit of black and white, or, extreme, thinking: it is a psychological phenomenon cousin to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitt...y)#Depression], I hypothesize.
I also identify as a Covert or Secret Schizoid, in certain respects.
While I am a psyche aficionado and a lover of subcultures, if psyches are stringed instruments, I have a powerful need/drive for my own to be single stringed.
* Is the alternative reality he finds himself in real or not (is it objectively real and in existence or a figment of his imagination (perhaps, a motif from the coma or delirium he is in on account of being hit by the police car)?)?
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