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One of the most prevalent pressures that Lynch's protagonists face is the destructive social tendency to categorize everyone. "In much of my work," he says, "I describe people who are struggling with who they are, with people's perceptions of them.... People will always have an interest in labeling," or as Slot Machine suggests, insisting that everyone has a slot that they need to locate in order to fit comfortably into an ordered social...