I think
For me, the most memorable passage from this book was a flashback deep into Alison's childhood: the part where she starts writing "I think" before every one of her sentences in her diary, later to be replaced with a loopy symbol to represent the same concept. Aside from its peculiarity, I wanted to write about it because I felt it might get lost among all the other shocking events described. Now, at first, I have to admit I didn't understand why Alison Bechdel decided to include it at all. Yeah it's very interesting but it didn't jump out to me as directly related to the main plot line which is heavily focused on her father. Bechdel writes "It was a sort of epistemological crisis. How did I know that the things I was writing were absolutely objectively true? All I could speak for was my own perceptions, and perhaps not even those.". This specific behavior seems to be part of a larger pattern of obsessive compulsive behaviors she's displaying at...