...Our Velocity!

"I've tried too long to grow again into the world and now I'm being sent back. I don't want to remove myself again. I spent so long away and finally rejoined the world and now I can't be here. It's too much to walk around with this skin and this blood - it all hisses at me. I sink into my blood and it hisses at me."

Brilliant, really. Who thinks they have the right to paint such vivid pictures of human emotions with nothing but the swirl of a little black ink on an off-white page? The interior monologues so often take things you've pictured in your mind before but never had the words to describe... even to yourself... It's pretty amazing. Some criticisms were saying that Eggers can't write about anything but his own life in any way that engages the reader. To say the least, I find that hard to understand.