Those that have read this brother know that repetition is a part of what makes his stories what they are. A while ago another brother, a big brother belonging to the brotherhood of mutilation, this brother sent me an essay in which he had counted the times that brother used certain words in some of his stories. This essay was eventually i think published in a journal whose name is intentionally unsaid. In this essay he determined that 41% of a certain story by brother consisted of the words: {fish, the, this, we, us, and, brothers, our, it, to} & this doesn't include variations of some of these words, like brother or muddy. This academic brother also points out that the word «he» never appears in this story & the word «I» appears only once, whereas words like «we» & «us» are sprinkled liberally, to emphasize the togetherness of this brotherhood. He ends the essay with a passage that is blurbed on the back of this new muddy book: