the project, overall, seems an assemblage of the types of fragments of poetic-seeming detritus (physical, anecdotal) one finds and seeks to render meaning from, generally unsuccessfully

the stories, of "outsiders" or people who would be considered borderline or insane, are of people who try to make sense of these fragments

thus, the reader is pushed out and about, never having enough information from the text, and the options of misreading and distraction is constantly at the forefront, which seems the point, and a valuable one