A: What are you doing?
B: Writing a story.
A: What’s it about?
B: Writing myself out of a story.
A: How do you do that?
B: That’s what I want to find out.
A: Are you in a story now?
B: I don’t know. Sometimes.
A: How can you be in the story when you are writing it?
B: What if I was writing about myself?
A: Okay, then you would writing about yourself and not the story.
B: Couldn’t the story then be about me writing about myself as a story?
A: What do you mean?
B: I mean that the story would have to be about me writing about myself writing my way out of a story.
A: Meaning that the story that you were trying to write yourself out of would be the writing of yourself as writing?
B: Or of me writing a story about myself writing a way out of the story, which is about myself writing about myself.
A: But at no point could you be writing the story then, unless you weren’t you. That would be a story.
B: Yes. That’s right. You’re absolutely right.
A: Then who are you?
B: A story trying to write itself.