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ericg51 at 7:02 am says:
"It seemed pointless and irrelevant to me."
Precisely!
This is what Tony now 'gets.' This is a fascinating chapter in which Tony comes to understand - by way of the peyote, the roulette wheel, and the sunset - what sort of animal he truly is, in contrast to the sort of animal that most of the rest of us (represented by Dr. Melfi?) are. He is what he is: A Force of Nature in an ultimately pointless and irrelevant life. This is a nihilist twist in what would otherwise be a classical/Shakespearean tragedy, but which is rendered - by virtue of the nihilistic cosmic joke - as comedy instead.
Gordon Ginsberg