“Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life,” a Memoir by Yiyun Li: The future Author, after being hypnotized by her father when he taught her meditation at age eleven, heard the commanding voice of an alternate personality in her head:

“There is this emptiness in me. All the things in the world are not enough to drown out the voice of this emptiness that says: you are nothing…

“This emptiness does not claim the past because it is always here. It does not have to claim the future as it blocks out the future. It is either a dictator or the closest friend I have ever had…What if this emptiness is what keeps me going?” (1, p.19).

Comment: The above suggests that the author’s father, when he taught her meditation at age eleven, possibly her peak of hypnotizability, inadvertently incited the fiction writer’s creative state of multiple personality, the theme of this blog.

1. Yiyun Li. Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, a Memoir, New York, Random House, 2017.