At the beginning the narrator focuses on a typo on the hospital menu that says “…They mean, I think, that the roast will be served tonight with buttered noodles. But what it says…is that the roast will be cut into pieces…not a word you want to see after you flip the car over twice…” (Hempel 53) as if he is trying to take his mind off All. However, the narrator continues to talk about his memory, the realization of final death, and the duality of experience. Although he occasionally, as a coping mechanism, refrains from becoming too serious, making superficial jokes, he finds himself diving into a deeper meaning. Memory is one of the general themes of this narrative, and within it we identify one of the first examples of dual experience. On one side of the coin is what actually happened: being in trouble, getting drunk, running away looking through binoculars in a truly reckless manner, and all while dealing with a devastating loss. Now let's explore the other side, as in what we want to remember: the narrator says it in relation to what he