I don't understand how everyone seems to think that the narrator is complicit in the drug addiction? Where is the first person? Or do you all mean the protagonist of the story? In that case, there is a character with that drug addiction, but not the narrator - he is only describing the circumstances. Please, enlighten me if I've missed something.
I'm paraphrasing from memory, but John Darnielle has said that the album We Shall All Be Healed was made by 'dredging up a version of myself that i managed to kill a long time ago'.
I'm paraphrasing from memory, but John Darnielle has said that the album We Shall All Be Healed was made by 'dredging up a version of myself that i managed to kill a long time ago'.
I don't understand how everyone seems to think that the narrator is complicit in the drug addiction? Where is the first person? Or do you all mean the protagonist of the story? In that case, there is a character with that drug addiction, but not the narrator - he is only describing the circumstances. Please, enlighten me if I've missed something.
I'm paraphrasing from memory, but John Darnielle has said that the album We Shall All Be Healed was made by 'dredging up a version of myself that i managed to kill a long time ago'.
I'm paraphrasing from memory, but John Darnielle has said that the album We Shall All Be Healed was made by 'dredging up a version of myself that i managed to kill a long time ago'.
Yes, John is very open about having a period in his youth where he was a heavy methamphetamine user:
Yes, John is very open about having a period in his youth where he was a heavy methamphetamine user:
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