>dude so my character says he has a perfect memory but on page 19 he claims to have put three spoonfuls of sugar in his tea even though on page 593 he says he takes his tea black so now he's an unreliable narrator lmao
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wait, but, sugar doesn't make tea or coffee less black.
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rofl
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DEEPEST LORE
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>OP confirmed for Gene Wolfe protagonist
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“You’ve taken the last of my Marmalade Surprises!” cries Mrs. Quoad, having now with conjuror’s speed produced an egg-shaped confection of pastel green, studded all over with lavender nonpareils. “Just for that I shan’t
let you have any of these marvelous rhubarb creams.” Into her mouth it goes, the whole
thing.
“Serves me right,” Slothrop, wondering just what he means by this, sipping herb tea to remove the taste of the mayonnaise candy— oops but that’s a mistake, right, here’s his mouth filling once again with horrible alkaloid desolation, all the way back to the soft palate where it digs in.