Nice Wife Mizuki is a version of the real me, for sure, and in all those years, I thought there was a strong possibility she could become the main model. Why not? What are we, apart from the stories we tell ourselves and other people? I know all too well that I’m a flimsy construct, a flamboyant play set shot through with exaggerations and inconsistencies and secret compartments full of unsavory surprises. I made myself that way.

