The body in death is beyond the power of language, unreformable, unrevisable. I suppose the third character is the writer, such as she is, faced by these two powerful and irreconcilable narratives. And, also, the book is very funny. It really is. Yes, I'd like to be asked why I am wary of interviews.
Interviews can caption poetry and make poems illustrations of the facts in interviews.
Well, I suppose I console myself with the belief that, even in an interview, a fact can be an act of invention.