He literally tells the same story over and over again, differently every time. He has several stories that he does this to. The book is a fictional autobiography; O’Brien was in the Vietnam War, and writes as though he were recollecting stories from the Vietnam War, but the stories are all made up. Here, I found an excerpt that illustrates the principle in a somewhat okay manner.
He literally tells the same story over and over again, differently every time. He has several stories that he does this to. The book is a fictional autobiography; O’Brien was in the Vietnam War, and writes as though he were recollecting stories from the Vietnam War, but the stories are all made up. Here, I found an excerpt that illustrates the principle in a somewhat okay manner.
EDIT: Here, this is better (PDF warning).