“The Maytrees” by Annie Dillard (post 4): A Sense of Inner Wayward Multiplicity

“He learned he did not think. He witnessed ghost parts and motes on parade disappear…Could anyone…master his own mind…Did his brain contain a pack of selves?…Surely, he thought, it must be easier to drill a troop of baboons (1, p. 97).

Comment: Much of this novel contains rambling psychological meditations.

1. Annie Dillard. The Maytrees. New York, Harper Perennial, 2008.