Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.
Glen DuncanWhen you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.
Glen DuncanThereโs a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but itโs really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we canโt ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then itโs quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementiaโs the sane realisation you just canโt be doing with all that anymore.
Glen Duncan