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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I didn't think the book was going to be rubbish based on the preface. I figured the preface was written after and doesn't really count. But, the book itself is rubbish and the preface just ramblings of a mad man.
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I imagine that many people in Victorian England would have thought an
epilepsy sufferer a "mad man." Lewis is said to have suffered from epilepsy all of his adult life.
The correlation between how people describe
what they feel in seizures and how the narrator slips in and out of reality is striking:
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For example I would be in an area I know really well, and I know I should know where I am but I don't. Or I would be watching something on TV that I know I should know, and I suddenly feel like I am watching from a distance and don't know where I am, or who the characters are.
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Other people describe memory gaps, or a feeling of looking at one's self from the outside.
While I still come down on the side of disliking the text, the more I research it, the more depth it has for me.