What there is – all there is – is a language. When you tell the story, you don’t talk the way you do the rest of the time. You put on the storytelling voice, and the storytelling way, which sets you at a distance from what you’re saying even if you’re aiming to pop up in the story as your own self. That’s what I’m doing here, because I don’t know how else to go about it. Anyone who knows me and hears this may believe they spy a falseness in my voice. To any such, I say: you’re right, and then you’re wrong. I’m talking to you as straight and honest as I can. But I’m being a storyteller when I
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