those stories of a narrator who's washed

and trying to make it as an artist is part of it.

That's a trope in building Romans.

You know what I mean?

And that's so, I don't know.

I just like when people were like,

look at it, he wants to make it.

I was like, dude, that's what I'm talking about.

We're like, okay, there's a tiny part of,

there's parts of me that's drawn from,

but it's like I'm aware of the traditions

it's partaking in.

Well, yeah, I think people miss the self-awareness all,

sorry, I just miss that because I was peeing,

but no, it makes me think of like,

we were talking about the meta-narrative of,

right, the protagonist of the book,

wanting to publish,

to like struggling with the publishing world.

Yeah, and how he faced very little kind of pushback

from his editors.

Yeah, yeah, like that's the kind of sense I've got.

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