Also in the amusing department: I think I mentioned that I'd had a telephonic call with someone who appears in the book, just to get a timeline right. And that she became very worried about what I might have written. And then she asked if muse Margaret could come to lunch today. And then did she have muse Margaret's correct phone number? Like I didn't know what was in her head. So, as I knew she would, she called muse Margaret last night and went on and on, because she knows the only person who can get me to change something in these books is muse Margaret. Others can make suggestions and comments, all of which I take seriously and all of which I discuss with Margaret, but only if she says okay does something change.
But this gal has always been a controlling and manipulative person so I knew she'd do this, thinking if she could convince Margaret to speak to me that I might change things. Unfortunately for her, she doesn't know muse Margaret. Happily, Margaret had finished the book so she'd read all the stuff about this person, which really if you add up all the paragraphs in which she's mentioned is maybe two or three pages total out of 526. This person said to Margaret, "I wasn't a very good partner" and in that one sentence you knew how petrified she was about what I might write.
But what she fails to realize is that the book isn't about her. And that part of her is not in the book at all. As Margaret told her "You know, I was very close with Bruce during that whole thing and he never told me anything bad about you, just that he loved you and that it wasn't working out." And then she told her that she comes off glowingly in the book, and that is correct. The only one who comes off a little poorly in that section is me, because the truth of the matter is, I was in a very bad place and that caused me to behave poorly, which probably exacerbated her problems.
Lunch today will be very interesting. I will not discuss the book at all, other than to say I don't think there's anything in there that will bother her but if there is there's nothing I can or will do about it. The book is an honest, truthful look at one person's then-life. Most of the time I'm not even interpreting events I'm just saying what they were.
I will also tell her that if she were writing a book that I'd hope she would be as gentle as I was, but if she wasn't, that would just be too bad for me.
