Charlie Kaufman speaketh.

I finally got my hands on a copy of Synecdoche, NY. It is mad. Asylum-grade mad. I love it more than anything else in my life at the moment. Here is a passage (Caden = protag, Madeline = his therapist):

CADEN

Oh, I wanted to ask, how old are
kids when they start to write?

MADELINE
Varies.

CADEN
Could a four year old keep a diary?

MADELINE
There's a brilliant novel
written by a four year old.

CADEN
Really?

MADELINE
'Little Winky.' By Horace Wood.

CADEN
Cute.

MADELINE
Hardly. Little Winky is a virulent anti-semite, who
works in a gin mill during prohibition. The story
follows his initiation into the Klan, his introduction
to the pornographic snuff industry and his ultimate
degradation at the hands of a black ex-convict, with
whom he embarks upon a homosexual affair.

CADEN
Wow.

MADELINE
He killed himself at five.

Now you know what I mean.