The curious incident

I've been re-reading this, and as always, you notice new things each time. What strikes me nost at the moment is the strength of Christopher's desire to tell a story--there is an ancient-mariner-like element to him, I think, including the sense of occasional social inappropriateness...

That's something important about storytelling, isn;t it--the sense that the story needs to be told, that there's a point to it. Like in 'Fat' when Carver's narrator tells us that Rita doesn't get 'it', we know that there is an 'it' there to get, and implicitly we, the readers, are more likely to understand than Rita is. Christopher's address to the reader seems to have something of the same strength. He may say that the book is just a record that Siobhan told him to write, but there's that soryteller's edge there as well...