Listen. This book is trying to combat the presumption that a story must be immediately intelligible. Thanks to the domination of linearization, language has become strictly linear. Anything nonlinear, and language appears to go haywire.

We wrote this book to regain access to our nonlinear cognition. When you are alone and are simply thinking, thoughts and feelings are flowing rapidly, cross-relating, mutually negating, extending, refining, etc... None of this is linear, like when you read in a neat, tidy book. When you awaken from slumber, you don't consciously explain to yourself "what's happening". Likewise, if you are reading a "first-person story", and the character awakens, the character should not explain "what's happening" either. The critical limit of the first-person is this that it excludes any narration which is not immediately intelligible to an audience. It pretends that the character should somehow tailor his/her expressions to the audience members, whom require linearized expressions.

This book proceeds nonlinearly. You will not "understand" it as you go. No. You must simply "ingest" it. Just as moods shift and swing, so too do the styles in this book. Keep going. And thank you.