I am getting used to writing this book on a phone. My fingers are huge. I write slowly. Very slowly. And I never do anything slowly. One good thing about it is that it is giving the book a feeling of immediacy. The challenge with it is that what you’re playing with in that immediacy is pop culture. Journalism is pop culture. Serious writers can only do it and get away with doing it if they don’t go off into silliness, and only if they can handle multiple juxtapositions. I want irony. This is affecting my timeline. I just don’t want the reader to get confused as to what time (era, whatever) it is and it seems as if a timeline is an animal that has no idea what it is. So many novelists are creatures from the past. This gives their work a sheen of respectability I am not sure the word deserves. Thompson did it better than anyone. What is a photograph anyway. Today, I will break the timeline up into bits and pieces. The author becomes the protagonist. You can do critique and self-satire. But you have to be careful because going over the top will go over the top and it will take the book with it. Fuck the timeline. Follow the phone.