The Confusing Chronology of a Single Deadly Error . How often do we reproach ourselves, overplay the situation in our heads, "but if I did this, and not this, everything would be different". The whole life of the main character comes down to the phrase "if I bought a hamburger" - it revolves in his thoughts for 30 years, day and night, without a break for lunch. A strange boy, since childhood, placed in conditions of observation of death, after a fatal, unintentional mistake will blame himself for everything. Wild craving to spy on funerals from under the torn curtain , painful friendship with the funeral attendant's daughter - a girl with cold hands and desperate arguments about What if he does look like ,? He is not afraid of his fingers. then she will come to his funeral and he will not be alone - all this is just a starting point for the final frame Then the time will stop.... Brotigan writes affectionately, as if stroking on the head of all his extraordinary characters who have sunk to the bottom. And this boy, sitting in a cheap diner and dripping with tears - grown, but disappeared after that notorious uneaten hamburger will remain an orphan and rejected.