And I think you're going to start by reading a short passage from the opening part of the book.

Yes, this is from very near the beginning of the book.

And before we start to begin, let me also say that I'm having a bad day, a day of enmity towards the world and myself.

And on another day, I will begin in a different place and end in a different place.

And that's how it is.

Actually, not just a bad day either.

Yesterday, for the first time in many years, I was in a trough.

And of course, that reflects back on the title to how do people stay the same? But is Patrick trying to grasp or accept the fact that he's a multiplicity of selves? Or is he more trying to find his authentic self, like who he is?