To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

Now that I have finished reading Joshua Ferris's To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, I am trying to make sense of what I have just read. For one, it seemed like the ramblings of a lonely dentist having a successful practice in New York's Park Street. Then, it also ventured into the arcane territory of ancient Judaism and an unknown community called the Ulm (and this took up a substantial part of the book), and I was forced to wonder if a person's loneliness can drive him to create an online alter...