And ÔI said to Mabel, I saidÕ is this Simpsons line that was a slight meme online back in 2005 and is rumored to be from Gatsby and rumored to be from Wodehouse and is from neither so I love that itÕs this ghostly stand-in for the depiction of casual speech in literary fiction/an internet hallucination of a hilobrow cartoonÕs memory of the literary representation of casual speech. And I like the Thomas Bernhard endless-monologue style of novel and wanted to do something like that.