It's peppered with bizarre anecdotes and forthright opinions.
On the Map is peppered with such compelling and bizarre anecdotes, some to do with recurring cartographic howlers (because map makers, like cookery writers, copy one another).
And the bizarre anecdotes Hedwig told of his harsh childhood are now enacted, like one about the apartment he shares with his mother in East Berlin, a domicile so small she forces him to play with his head in the oven.
The Carson song was written at the stage in the campaign when Trump, feeling threatened by Carson's candidacy, had attacked Carson for some bizarre anecdotes from his opponent's memoir.
Jimmy's "badly written" notes and his "poorly explained" framework merely echo the original accounts, which consist of bizarre anecdotes in which truth is lost in the "Chinese whispers" of their telling.
One of the most bizarre anecdotes in the book comes when McBride recounts the tale of a trip to the Daily Mail HQ in Kensington.
Sure, it's easy to dismiss this as an exploitative exercise, an educated New York artist finding a bunch of cranks from the bayous and giving them a chance to run wild with their bizarre anecdotes and wide reaching accusations.
