He means that in the counterfactual world where he didn’t find this book, he became normal. In that case, he would have wished that his parents had not let him read this book (which is precisely what would have indeed happened).
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He means that in the counterfactual world where he didn’t find this book, he became normal. In that case, he would have wished that his parents had not let him read this book (which is precisely what would have indeed happened).