Later on, he engages with a girl, Marzia, himself butthroughout the novel she is more of a means to engage in talk about it with Oliver, distracthimself from him, and fantasize about him through her. To some degree, it is one of manyattempts to imitate the behavior of the older more confident graduate student. Only later doesOliver tell Elio that he is in fact not interested in Chiara. Elio is confused

As Elio cannotmake sense of this categorization of manhood, he turns towards a more traditional behavior ofmanhood to befriend Oliver and find common ground with him: the pursuit and discussion ofwomen.

He also thinks rather poorly of himself and often contrastshis shortcomings with the ideal image he created of Oliver:

Features

The default positioning mode that you’ve gotten used to is position: static.

the same time such closeness may create certain kinds of blindness in the researcher. One protection we developed against this was in the ongoing process of analysis in the research group. Our analytic discussions, of necessity,

he fact that we, the in- terviewers, were women who have been married, divorced, and had children (one of us had a baby after the study began) increased the validity of our data.

Popper has a sole goal: position elements. That's why we call it a "positioning engine" and not a "tooltip library".

In order to maximize the effectiveness of your projections, figure out which things you want to be associated with in people’s heads and be excited about them. Nothing is more memorable than distinct excitement. Similarly, try to figure out the things that drive the whomever you’re talking to and incorporate them into your mental representation of that person.