The Invention of Sound

by Chuck Palahniuk

At first, he wasn’t thinking. That’s not how the human heart works.

After people had been fed so many lies they’ll never swallow anything as the truth.

The one life you’ve been given, and you’ve dedicated it to perfecting this staggering yammering artificial Frankenstein’s monster stitched together from the traits of other people. Anything original, anything innately you, it’s long ago been discarded.