A lot of the time the dialogue is written and cut in a certain way to trip up your habits. That happens in this, too, except that the emotion can be a lot more obvious. The story is complicated enough that I didn't need to hide it. I didn't need to use as many of those formalist approaches to trip you up. The story itself will trip you up.
Henry is so many contradictions.
When I was editing it, I suspected that it might, I suspected myself. I thought I might have been cheap with emotion. Now, I don't feel that way. There was a real need for me to write that story in that way, so I have to give that credence. I don't know if it's my best work.