Like Marcel in Proust's masterpiece, she says, she feels that her life "needs redeeming by analysis and reflection".
There's the vaguely disabled family member (in this case, a permanently befuddled uncle), the regulation scatty sister who needs redeeming (Lydia Wilson).
It is only from the life that needs redeeming that we can learn about redemption, and his struggles to overcome his ghastly upbringing, his addiction, his suicidal impulses, are worthwhile and helpful to anyone else who might have felt the same way, precisely because he refuses to pretend he's anything other than he is.
He explains why he needs redeeming by giving us a detailed audit of his transgressions as a slash-and-burn journalist, tallying up 47,678 nasty printed remarks for a lifetime mean/nice ratio of 9.56 to 1, under categories like "Icons I Pitilessly Traduced" (Bill Moyers, Albert Camus, Merchant and Ivory) and "Unlikely People I Defended" (Jeffrey Dahmer, Larry King).
(By current projections, it will need interest payments to help pay benefits starting in 2016 and will need to redeem the bonds themselves starting in 2025).
In order to purchase apps, you will need a credit card associated with your Apple ID, or you will need to redeem an iTunes gift card.
It's a fascinating theme to impose, the need to redeem oneself by saving others.
There's a bit of risk here because you need to redeem the miles to get any return.
Now isn't the time to think about all of that, because we're not going to try to draw attention away from his need to redeem himself.
