George Saunders

Because if you think of, now this is getting a little deep, but I think if you say...

That's my hope.

Yeah, yeah.

Here's a question.

Have you ever been comforted by a falsehood?

Yes.

Which one?

Because you're working on it together.

In a sense, what you're saying is, I will be well.

And I think that that's the form of you extending grace to him, which isn't exactly truthful.

The spell isn't exactly truthful, but the substrate or the sort of foundation of the spell is true.

There is, but where she gets into trouble, and again, I discovered this about halfway through.

If you are beating the shit out of another human being and I say to you, Ezra, I'm here and I love you.

that's bullshit.

That's false.

So, so you, I think in her situation, she says, I'm here and I love you and I don't care what you did.

Okay.

Now from his point of view, I'd say KJ Boone does, he knows what he did and he cares.

And as the book goes on, he's increasingly tormented by this denial.

So I think in there, certainly saying, I love you.