The Importance of Trust in a Novel

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"I don't know if I found him quite as unsympathetic and I thought the writing and the energy carries this part of the story but he definitely it was starting to grate on me" "He knows what you're what you think of him before you even think it. That's one of the frustrating aspects of his character very self-fulfilling yesIt's in that sense I think kind of a brave story I think it has to be written by somebody who you have some trust in because you might just give it up like yep" He says is disgusted with myself for always being such a fraud but I couldn't seem to help it here are some of the various things

Our whole lives we’ve been frauds. We’re not exaggerating. Pretty much all we’ve ever done is try to create a certain impression of us in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. This episode is a perfect example, Tamler pretending to be a cinephile (check out his four favorite pieces of 2019 “pop culture” in the first segment), David trying to connect with the people (Baby Yoda, Keanu Reeves etc.) – and of course what could be more fraudulent than a deep dive into a David Foster Wallace story, rhapsodizing over the endless sentences, the logical paradoxes, the seven-layer bean-dip of metacommentary (Jesus Christ I’m surprised there aren’t like eight footnotes in this episode description), and meanwhile the Partially Examined Life dudes refresh their overcast feeds and wonder through the tiny keyhole of themselves how David and Tamler have sunk so low that they’d ramble on about “Good Old Neon” like a couple of first year Comp-Lit grad students trying to impress that girl who works at the Cajun bakery.