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"Every step in my career had been towards becoming the monitor rather than the monitored."

"I bet you had a Tumblr."

That last chapterlet (IV) feels like it could only have been written by someone who had spent whole days walking deep in the countryside without a car to go back to. But is it too contemporary to see solitude as a sharpener, when narrating someone from a far more communal age? (I think the greatest plot-hole is the neglect of how normal it was for people in the past to always be surrounded by others)