Kindle Notes & Highlights
I completely lost my mind, which is what I do, I've noticed, and that is to treat my mind like a set of house keys: lose it and then happily find it, only to lose it again.
Who were these citizens? Where were they off to in such a hurry? Where was I off to? They all looked tragically self-absorbed and self-important; they had stricken, tormented faces. But then I remembered that's how everyone looks. That's how I look.
When you write the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution or directions for brain surgery, then you have to be firm, but with novels it's enough just to ask the Questions. People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.”
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I'm making myself out to be a loony, unreliable narrator, which is the best kind of narrator to have, Jeeves. Allows you to get away with things, like not fact-checking.
