Yann Martel

And I break them up in paragraphs so it's easy to read.

But sometimes what I liked is sometimes the subordinate clauses don't follow directly on the main clause.

They come a little bit later.

It's all about digressions.

In a sense, in reading about loss of memory in chronology, your own memory is tested.

And also there's one thing I, for example, one of the booklets I call them, I discuss a French short story, very, very famous French story called La Cheve de Monsieur Seguin, Mr. Seguin's Goat by the French writer Alphonse Daudet.

In one of the booklets, I translate it from the French into English.

you know, a fairly liberal translation, but it's in the public domain, so who cares?

So in one of them, I translate La Chèvre de Monsieur Seguin into English.

In another booklet, I discuss it, its punctuation and its style.

And then in a third one, and that's the key one, I make a point about it, a point about...

my mother.

And depending on how you read it, you'll get that in a completely different order.

And there's also all kinds of cross references.

So for example, one of the cross references is Yitzhak Shamir.

If you remember, he was one of the former prime minister of Israel for no political reasons whatsoever.

It's just that Yitzhak Shamir was the first famous person that I read about as having Alzheimer's.

Just as Rock Hudson, if you remember decades ago, Rock Hudson was the first American celebrity

to be known to have AIDS when AIDS was a death sentence.

So I have mentions of Yitzhak Shamir throughout.