Summary

"10/16" shows that Cohen the Narrator is writing the book by hand, which he has not done since he was in school. He has to put extra effort into bolding, underlining, and italicizing. He writes that computers just keep records without showing the effort of the writer. Tangible effort can be seen with handwritten records though. To Cohen the Narrator, a notebook is "the only place you can write about shit like this and not give a shit" (549). A notebook is a space where honesty can come forth and also be forgiving.

He travels to Vienna, taking a different way in than he did 12 years before. He makes it to his hostel and thinks about how, the last time, he had stayed at The Bristol, which his mother paid for.

Cohen the Narrator includes a passage from Cal's novel, Bringdom's War, which relates the...