Full disclosure: I liked this reading so much I went and bought the damn book. The author comes across as a bit tedious — really, you really read a book back to front when you’re enjoying it? — but there was a lot to take from it.

Here are some things I don’t know or want to ponder.

• What do these numbers mean? Why start at 312?
• What is the “march of consciousness across the stage” meant to mean? Can’t I witness my own consciousness?
• Can multiple parts ever create a whole? Should they even try?
• Does nothing have a simple cause/effect relationship? Is it always “bright splinters”?
• Who / what are the “compositionally disabled”?
• Can anything have meaning on its own, or is it derived 100% from context?
• How do you give the “apparent form” of a narrative without creating one accidentally?
• Will a collage end up saying more about its creator than itself?
• And I quote: “I hate quotations”.
• What’s Goethe’s involvement?
• Can you plan a collage?
• How can something be “both real and imagined”?
• Why is non-fiction less limiting than fiction?
• How can you sustain a work made entirely of “pinnacles”?