[smitty1e]

> Modern life, according to Moshfegh and many other writers of contemporary literary fiction, has no meaning whatsoever!

If the intent is to satirize meaninglessness, then perhaps the protagonist should have joined a satirical cult, like the one in the Illuminatus! Trilogy, proclaiming that Bugs Bunny is God, and Earth is shaped like a carrot.

A satirical look at null, it seems, should argue something non-null in the end.

[DiscourseFan]

Art doesn’t “argue,” it is something open to its own possibilities. Proscribing anything for art kills it.

[smitty1e]

Art does, too, offer arguments, more or less explicitly.