Status Updates From El reyezuelo

Another reference to the title was made where the mentally disturbed brother's spirit or soul was said to have taken refuge in a bird perched on a nearby tree to where some disgruntled workers who were protesting were subduing him because he started throwing apples at them thinking they were gathered to attack him... This book is a collection of disparate vignettes of this sane brother's life with his crazy sibling

The way the French language is able to deliver such solid understanding to me and create vivid pictures of simple scenes always amazes me because this is like a language I acquired as at least a 7th or 8th in my life but I command it better than Afrikaans that I was taught in school.

It would seem I have read 10 pages since the last time I made an update on this book. Anyway, it was on page 83 that I realised that I have misgendered the narrator in the story. I thought they were female, thus the sister to the mentally disturbed brother, and when they had a spouse who was female I thought they were a sapphic couple and so I went on believing that I was reading that kind of storyline this that page

It was always going to come to this. As much as suicide is frowned upon, if we accept that no one asked to be here but some grew to appreciate being here after discovering they were here, it can also be true that others grew to detest this and felt trapped. The condemnation of suicide is because others want to hold those who don't want to be here hostage with emotional blackmail & it is selfish in my opinion

It is only in this chapter that I discover that the narrator, the sister of the schizophrenic guy, is a writer. In this chapter she talks about how the readers are always writing letters to her and this one was clearly from someone who was mad about some religious or spiritual thing related to the book, that of atheism which the brother said her books are always asserting the nonexistence of God, making believers mad