e. Never mind, I’ll just go back and reread HHhH, reveling in its syncopated narration, Laurent Binet’s vinegar wit and his absolute adoration of the Czech resistance against Nazi Germany. I suppose there's a trend here, all the books or authors I've recommended had to be translated so I could read them. Not that I commission translations. You know what I mean.
f. "I don’t think it’s advisable to trust the books you read, lord knows they don’t trust you."
g. Syncope cuts off consciousness, perhaps as a defense mechanism, emerging through evolution from time immemorial when humans weren't very good at playing dead. Syncopation is disruption, the order broken or changed, a defense mechanism against the boring and the same. All literature worth reading breaks or disrupts accepted orders and ideas, with either a satirical eye or provocateur's smirk. I knew I had some kind of point to make.