Jean-Paul Sartre was an absurdist philosophy. I think some of what he wrote about would be things going through Sonny's mind.
If you repeat a word enough times that it loses its meaning. It just becomes absurd. And Sonny has had the same thoughts running through his mind over and over again with no escape from his solitude.
Dinner really means that when your part of the planet has spun away from the energy of a distant hydrogen and helium explosion, you slide your knees under strips of a chopped-up tree and put sections of dead animals and plants in your mouth and chew, while next to you, another mammal whose genitals you sometimes touch is doing the same.
The world around Sonny is absurd. He doesn’t feel part of it. It feels strange to be anything at all.
This is quite obviously not an in depth analysis of Sartre's writing, but I found it interesting.
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