Tailoring

Like Alyssa said, the only way to trace where you’ve been is to mark the pages. Well, at first I didn’t think of that, but after last night when I was done I thought that I wanted to remember where I had been. I didn’t remember the order or anything, and I was actually glad that I wasn’t able to recall that or keep an exact order of what I did, but I did go back and check off what pages I had seen already so when I went back today I could pick back up. It would make me worry to think that I had missed out on something. I think that’s why I read on to the next page initially instead of following directions as I mentioned on Monday.

Anyway, the parts that tell me to choose a random page I think are a little more disorienting, at least for me. In the rest of the book, I get used to being told “if you want this, go here; if you want this, go here.” But when it tells me that I have the choice to do literally whatever I want, I get worried that I’m going to “mess it up.” I think, however, that that is the beauty of this collage—there really is no way to mess it up. No matter what you do or what order you go in, as long as you keep going you are pretty much guaranteed to end up on every page eventually. Every story is altered slightly, tailored to the reader.