Through an interpreter, Matsuzaka said that he was too worried about Thomas' at-bat, and being "overconscious" of the potential damage that Thomas could do put him in a tight spot.
Taken together, these disturbing portraits figure forth Maus's strange relationship to the ashes of the real--simultaneously haunted by the inadequacy of representation in the face of the catastrophe of history and overconscious of the all-too-real materiality that representations take on through the intervention of the culture industry.