We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

by Karen Joy Fowler

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you’ve gone over that cliff.

They don’t have a theory of mind that accounts for actions driven by beliefs in conflict with reality. And really, who lacking that will ever be able to navigate the human world?

“I’m seeing so much of America today,” Luya kept telling Lowell in nervously accented English. It became a personal catchphrase for him—whenever things were not to his liking, he’d say that—I’m seeing so much of America today.