That was compelling, albeit for reasons I can't seem to elucidate, kind of like Knausgaard, right down to the mystifying self-presentation as a sort of loser wh

That was compelling, albeit for reasons I can't seem to elucidate, kind of like Knausgaard, right down to the mystifying self-presentation as a sort of loser who nonetheless has many friends and lovers (though maybe everybody, if they were to give similarly complete and honest accounts of their lives, would come off as sort of losers, too).