I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

Not all events are stories.

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.