I Am a Human, So I Consider Nothing Human to Be Foreign to Me

There is in the end no difference between himself and his book, the essays. Touch one and you touch the other. One might wonder why anyone else should be interested in reading such a determinately self-obsessed work. Montagne resolutely resists the idea that talking about himself is an indirect way to talk about some other topic. I am striving, he writes, to make known not matter, but me.