Public vs. private Mika
by M.M. Lewis, January 2004

How is the Mika presented in "Thought Drainage" different from the Mika I act like around most people? What makes the first Mika more genuine? And can I learn to really be myself? To do that, I need to know myself—the real me, the one few (if any) people have gotten more than a glimpse of.
            So what did I say in that piece of prose that was so uncharacteristic of the public Mika? I don’t see a big contrast, probably because I always have the same kind of thoughts as those, and in this instance I merely put them onto paper. Why am I able to convey myself in writing, but not in person?