BRAIN: so wait what is the allegation here?
BRAIN: with the inhaler?
OSCAR: i don’t know
OSCAR: I stopped reading pretty quickly
OSCAR: it’s just sometimes good to remember what real crazy is
BRAIN: this is a good exercise in the device of “unreliable narrator”
BRAIN: because there’s enough clues you can piece together what is “really” happening
BRAIN: example:
I now work at a vitamin store where I met a chiropractor. She offered to help me. I went in for one session and experienced a great improvement.
She has since, mysteriously, refused to see me.
BRAIN: GEE I WONDER WHY
BRAIN: IT MUST BE THE CONSPIRACY
OSCAR: wow, too insane for chiropractors
BRAIN: can you imagine that session?
BRAIN: lady’s on the table
BRAIN: the chiropractor sort of wondering how she can gracefully never talk to her again
OSCAR: gracefully?
OSCAR: i suspect the key is “hopes this person doesn’t have violent tendencies”
BRAIN: yeah like you are in a little room with someone
BRAIN: it suddenly occurs to you that they are bugfuck insane
OSCAR: that’s only happened with people I’ve dated
This site seems a bit misleadingly named. I was hoping for a directory of countries that had Mad Cow outbreaks or a rating system of the safety of beef in those countries.
The diatribe also reminds me of Alex Robinson’s “Tricked.”