My Life is like a Fairy Tale

by Robert Irwin

Well, if nasty people like Leni can produce great art, what is so great about art?

Leni is Leni Riefenstahl. It's a good question with no easy answer that's at the heart of the book.

All sorts of things do not get published in novels, like washing up, applying cosmetics, going to the lavatory.

What the horoscopes never allowed for was that people might be depressed because they were impoverished, ill or living under a dictatorship.

As Cagliostro confessed, he was in the business of lending out dreams at ruinous rates of interest.

This, in a sentence, seems to be the theme of the novel.

Time is so horrible. Why does one thing have to follow another?

Since we only live in the present moment, the life narrative cannot exist.