Submergedness

More: he now yearned as avidly for this submergedness, this union of all things living, as he had hitherto shrunk from it.

[…]and utilizing also the nuanced effects achieved through submergedness, textual mobility becomes a determinant force curtailing individualistic efforts at self-demarcation—both of finite narrative structures and of extrafictional subjects.

[…]indicates that for all his Dostoievskian submergedness he is becoming a member of the inner circle, a wielder of power, and it is an odd paradox that must afford him some amusement as he guns down the roaches.