It is concerning that the book implies that this length of time is acceptable.
But the close association the book implies is largely imaginary.
For those fortunate enough to have avoided a criminal fate, the book implies, loneliness is the reward.
Yet they did so not because they're mustache-twirling sadists, as the book implies, but to improve their bottom line.
What about people who don't have the life-choices the book implies?A lot of things in "Search Inside Yourself" are universal.
On a big piece of paper you make a random map of your interests, experiences, classes you have taken, and eventually, or so the book implies, some themes will start to suggest themselves.
'In a sense,' muses Bruno in a characteristic aside, 'the serial killers of the 1990s were the spiritual children of the hippies of the 60s.' For those fortunate enough to have avoided a criminal fate, the book implies, loneliness is the reward.
Chitty flies the family away to parts unknown, and the book implies that the car has yet more secrets.
They come across a strange product called Ubik which is advertised in every time period in the book, implying perhaps this product will be answer to the strange occurrences happening.
In a C-Span interview earlier this year, he spoke of the satisfaction that comes from finishing another section of the book, implying that the parts can stand as a complete work even if he can no longer add to them.
