12 Roald Dahl’s Boy and Autobiography

Roald Dahl’s autobiographical stories in Boy sent me down a rabbit hole about what we’re doing with autobiography and biography in general.

Who cares what you did last Tuesday? What insights do we get about our own lives by writing things down? What about when we read them later?

How come Battlestar Galactica was an enormous all-encompassing obsession and a life-changing force for me in 2006, but now when I read my old blog, I don’t even know what I was talking about? Like I actually don’t remember most of the episodes or events from the show.

Why did it take 100,000 words of blog to get me from Pennsylvania to Los Angeles? Why am I making 1.2 million words of blog into a series of books? Will anyone ever read them? What’s with all the chairs?

I have many questions.

The most important one is: Does anyone ever have any insight into their own lives?

Things might get a little stream of consciousness as I’m getting over COVID.

Sacred cheese of life!