Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.
We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.
He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.
Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.