“In my style, the idea is that it’s more ornate because that’s what consciousness is. To the extent that it hurtles, that it’s circular and hurtling, it’s because that’s how I feel consciousness is, that’s what it’s like to be a person. You don’t have these perfectly transparent, simple thoughts. You have thoughts that are all cluttered up, like overused bookshelves. Do I think there’s content that’s important and even essential in those sentences? Absolutely I do.”