I'm walking home from work. Just found out that Jeff's going to be here next week. And that's cool. Hopefully we get to chat with him. And I'm going to pick up Korean at the Meets You South. Sharon's all right. Not too crazy. Anyway, did a lot of reading on the William Reagan survey of the unreliable narrator and read the one review of that, which seemed to basically say he half-assed it even in the attempt at claiming to even know what the genus, as he says, is. So I think it's kind of ironic that it can't even be pinned down. You know, the narrator whose narration cannot be trusted. So anyway, you know, I'm still working on making the story more streamlined in the sense that there has to be a pretty obvious or not so obvious, but not so hair-brained of the parallel between Adam's story. And it is rehabilitation and Egypt and Egypt to the time in which the story is set, which is pre-election, post-revolution. A slowly gaining steam of a Muslim brotherhood and a, in some ways, passive stifling of the wealthy liberal class that was progressive in its tactics to protest against the Mubarak regime. And basically start the catalyst of the revolution. So how do we translate that into a story? Well, in some ways, a revolution has two sides. There's the side that thinks nothing needs to change, and the side that thinks something does need to change. And then there's populists who are willing to just not book the system. Those who are perhaps still afraid of the effort being fruitless or harmful, and those who simply don't want to make ways. Now, in some ways, Adam's aphasia and amnesia. I like that. And he has trouble. I mean, that's where his inability to his brain damage. I like to describe it. I mean, he is like an unwilling protester, unreliable married, a brain damaged soldier who's amnesia and aphasia has handicapped his ability to fight. So disabled his ability to fight. Now, what does that mean? You're going to have to show what Adam was aware of the news. And I was watching it. Pretty religiously. And in parallel to the moments at which people were perhaps afraid to fight, we could argue that Adam, or maybe not afraid to fight, but I mean, we're not talking about the actual moment in time of the protest. Well, that might have to be changed. Maybe the story is more interesting during those 15 days. But how will he... See, then you could argue that you could drop hints. So let's back check it out. Let's say we want to stage the physical, detangible story that occurs before our human senses in the weeks of the Egyptian revolution. But Adam believes he has graduated from school and is going to a startup in Austin. So again, we're talking about a delusion he doesn't even know what time of year it is. So that's possible. Yeah, that makes more sense because we can actually stage the revolution through the eyes of someone. And I'm going to talk about the title because that parallel title, if I'm going to call it a sad country song and I'm going to talk about it. The country that is trying to decide its fate and has openly chosen a path of ignorance. That is that I have to think about what was the most depressing part of the Egyptian revolution. Was it the... It was when they were being told to get off the streets. After Mubarak stepped down after they had their big Friday, they had to clear the square. So that was going on during the spring semester. Adam's going to think it's the spring semester and he's going to think he finished his paper. And so the Egyptian revolution is one timeline. Adam's delusions are another timeline and the story of his parents that unified the two are a third timeline. And I'm not talking George, but I'm talking Florence and Sherry. So... It's making more sense. So let's think of some other ways we can compare the... So if we're going to say that Adam is suffering brain damage because the aphasia... And he believes the aphasia he was cured. But what we don't know, what he's keeping from himself and the reader is that... He hasn't been cured. This is his mind speaking. And being... He's keeping himself from saying the truth. And there has to be some moment at which you criticize the Egyptian revolution because... There are those who try and help like the therapist. For example, the therapist can be paralleled to the progressive protester. The therapist wants you to sit in a happy little room and hold hands with each other and live in tense and not expect to have sex. Say, speak your feelings and treat others with kindness. Whereas... The... You know, just like Adam is half Egyptian, half-dex and half-dex. There are two worlds here. There is... Well, you can argue that there's the computer world and Adam's world. The world are senses. But there's also the people in those worlds. So... In some ways, there's always this contrast of progress and tradition and identity and tradition. So like... I mean, it was a progressive activist. Adam's going to find out that she wasn't any progressive actor. She was even a student in the United States. So... That's another issue. All of them. Anya. blue by you. You got your color. Blue river, I don't know. Blue by you's work. Parallel, I've heard your song in miles. Unresick. But uh... How do you... landscape, set the landscape or create the Egyptian landscape in the story? Do you use physical objects or physical sites like the pyramids and mosques? Or do you... maybe I'm not sure. Do you reference other things like the characters? I mean, as a boyfriend. Are all representative of former ruling civilizations of Egypt. What else? The people who... the other patients have to suffer from other things like hemorrhoids. I mean, what do you know of people suffering in Egypt? And you can continue to speak in a contemporary western dialect, which might help because you want to emphasize the wild list or the crossroads that the Texas and the Egyptian revolution. For example, you know, female circumcision, how do you... talk about how someone might go through this augmented reality therapy in hopes of carrying there the post-traumatic disorder of living with the conditional in the female circumcision. There's also what other aspects of society we're talking about. You can tell there's hemorrhoid trafficking. That's a good thing. That bad, there's... There are children of multiple parents. There's a literacy. You can actually use it as a platform to criticize what needs to change in Egypt. So there's... What else? Now, you need to take care of the poor and you need to get educated. There's a very good world. Contrary situation. And in some ways, you could talk about people from other similar countries having people who... people from different countries. So yeah, the countries in the same profile of Egypt. There might be people from there. What else? Yeah. From the religious perspective, we can play the atom in the here's Indonesia and its... aphasia has represented humanity's inability to remember their past and communicate that past. So I mean, those are just things I'm not... I'm not a sense of how that... down but like... I want to say that the first three chapters represent the introduction. So the first chapter we introduce Adam and it's there to... deflect the reader. So basically there too. Distract the reader and to think in that story is about the soldier... through... trying to... basically do his life... after recovering from... and his... were were injuries. But what we're talking about is a country who has to try and maintain... itself amidst a revolution or in the aftermath... after a revolution and discover who it really is. The trick is that the revolution exposes that there is more than one aspect... to the society there's more than one subset of the society. And just like... in Adam's mind he is both man and woman. And in some ways... if women were represented by their own story, the society will fail. Now the story underneath... the parents represent the innocent youthful optimism... that two people that sprung out of the post-World War II era... and that lingered throughout the Cold War... and the perceived dominance of the UN... that... you know, two people can become friends... and it's not to say that it still doesn't exist today... but it's kind of weird. Man, how do you beat me? Alright, bye.