THE PARTY LINE By Dennis D. Gagnon In a later chapter of the book, a character referred to as “Sage” makes the comment when discussing human suffering that “most consciousnesses are practically filled to the brim with nothingnesses.” What does this mean, and how does it bear upon human suffering? Though I won’t go into the full details here, in the book Sage is making the point that most if not all of our objects of desire don’t really exist…..