Advancement

"There is, intrinsic to the process of a memoir, the resulting destruction of one's former self. Writing about those years, and being as cruel to who I was as I could be implicitly means that you are killing that person. Yes, you are sometimes celebrating that person's better moments, and relating with sympathy that person's better thoughts, but overall you are saying: This was me then and I can look at that person, from the distance I now have, and throw water balloons on his stupid fat head." -Dave Eggers