Goodreads asked Barry Lee Dejasu:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Barry Lee Dejasu One morning in high school, I was walking around with my hands in my pockets, and in my left pocket was an uncapped ballpoint pen. I later took my hands out of my pockets, and discovered a very strange symbol had been scrawled on the palm of my hand, far too intricate to be mere scribbles. I memorized it immediately, and have drawn it throughout my life since then. I now have it tattooed on my left bicep, and have adopted it as an integral symbol that appears in a number of my stories.

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