[timsh8]
During timsh's loopiness, his job producing books was soothing because
he didn't have to think too much all day long. His loopiness was further
soothed by continuous exposure to the fact of the vast number of books
that were produced in braelig and how insignificant his particular book
was likely to be. Then one day while he was not thinking a great idea
hit him. He would build himself into the book as the character that one
of his characters was writing about and lay out in the very book he was
writing all the possibilities of what might happen after the book was
published. This seemed marvelous to him because he felt that he could
somehow negate or prevent the possible negative outcomes of having his
book distributed by predicting them explicitly in the book itself. He
imagined that the act of describing these negative consequences would
neutralize the reality of those consequences, as though fate wouldn't
bother to bring something about that had already been conceived and articulated
by timsh.