“Skippy Dies” (post 1) by Paul Murray: “Mysterious Personae”

—Some students have “mysterious personae” (1, p. 20).

—What makes the personae “mysterious”?

—Do any of these students have memory gaps?

—Are any of these “personae” alternate personalities?

—Had the author ever had “mysterious personae"?

1. Paul Murray. Skippy Dies. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010.