How It All Goes Down
12 December 1997
- Here's another letter from Alex to Jonathan. Here are the highlights:
- Little Igor is reading Jonathan's novel ("Not as good as Harry Potter").
- Grandfather watches TV day and night.
- Alex wants to remove his father from his life.
- Finally, he suggests that he needs to address "Grandfather pointing at Herschel" (22.3), whatever that means.
- In closing, he wonders why Jonathan is writing this semi-fictional story about Trachimbrod, and he wonders why Jonathan wants him to be untruthful: "Why do we not make the story more premium than life? […] I do not think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem" (22.7).