Goodreads asked David Amerland:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

David Amerland That's an interesting question, particularly seeing how I often regard my life as a mystery to be understood. I mean, why am I the way I am? Why am I not different to what I have become? Why do I find myself thinking almost obsessively about justice and social balance and social equality when I personally am not disadvantaged (or, at least not significantly) and it isn't part of my job description to do so? In trying to understand this about myself I often travel, mentally, to my childhood, my upbringing, the experiences I had as a child.

Wouldn't it make it a cool plot for a book to discover that something manifests and guides us when we are young and it matures with us, as we age? It could be a spirit but that's a trite plot point, but how about a bacteria? Something that invades us and takes root in us and then it restructures our brain so that we are not controlled exactly but we are definitely guided towards specific things.

Far-reaching as this may sound I'd be willing to entertain it as a viable alternative to the theory that some people simply couldn't careless about the world and live only within the boundaries and well-being of their own body. Then, again, maybe they are the ones that have been 'infected' somehow, their brains truncated and damaged and the ones who feel that the world is our home and all the people are our brothers and sisters are the normal ones.

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