e in the here-and-now because of his preoccupation and anxiety over the past and the future. As Tamkin explains to him, “You have to pick out something in the immediate present moment. And say to yourself here-and-now, here-and-now, here-and-now. Where am I? Here. When is it? Now. Take an object or a person. Anybody. Here and now I see a person. Here and now I see a man…You have to narrow it down, one item at a time, and not let your imagination shoot ahead. Be in the present. Grasp the hour, the moment, the instant” (Bellow 90). We do see Tommy try to do this but every time he ma
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