It felt like every magical realism, multiple-narrative, unreliable or consistent, speculative work I've ever read before, cascaded into this one. Like they were all mirrors of his work. It pays to read the forerunners!
I'd recommend all of them, you don't have to get a specific book/collection of them, just find any online or if you run into a bookstore that has a compilation it WILL be good.
he bends reality in a way that makes me reminisce of a dimension where he wasn't a perfectionist and published more work.........
every now and again i like to browse random thoughts on the P.I. search and giggle about my finds,,, feels like a hug (and sometimes a deep dive to the psych ward [thank you all])
it's been stuck in the back of my head forever (one of the greatest!!!)
"The real truth about it is no one gets it right
The real truth about it is we're all supposed to try
There ain't no end to the sands I've been trying to cross
The real truth about it is my kind of life's no better off
If it's got the map or if it's lost
We will try and know whatever we will try
We will be gone but not forever
Come on let's try and know whatever we will try
We will be gone but not forever"
