The narrator of {return} may well be the Boy described in many Writings of the Ancients, in particular the curmudgeonly philosopher who calls himself the Last One, and who, if that surmise is valid, might be the older man portrayed in this memoiric fragment.

{making this up}, a Writing found with it, seems at first to contradict this hypothesis, though a thoughtful reading yields a more ambiguous interpretation: even if the events recalled in the first Writing "really happened", the only way they could be known outside the time and place of their occurrence requires the use not only of memory — unreliable at best in retrieving past events into present time — but text, about which the cantankerous Last One is quite blunt in his critique: Text is the Enemy.