There's 'no door four' and it's 'hard not to question your own thoughts'

Thinking about these passages

First passage

"Door one has opened in front of Spoon and he don’t like that one either. He hanging from a tree in that one.
And perhaps you may find
Find him there
'That's a very nice voice you got there, what shall we call you then? Elvis maybe?'

* * *

I grab a handle on a purple slice of wheel and pull down. Fate spins. It spins and spins and spins and spins. I hear spoon man screaming. Fate spins us all. He don’t stop crying out.

* * *

Door four. There is no door four. But I see it in front of me."

— "Door Four," Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars, Pantheon Books, 2023.

Second passage

"Psyops are pernicious because they are designed to create a mental catch-22. If you notice hte psyop, your own psychological health is called into question. In all the examples of culture war we've looked at, attackers portray their adversaries as stupid, criminal, and crazy — the kinds of people whose stories can't be trusted. It's hard to defend against a foe who convinces onlookers that you aren't being attacked or that, if you are, you deserve it. If you find yourself at the muzzle end of a psychological attack for long enough, it's hard not to question your own thoughts."

— Annalee Newitz, Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind. W. W. Norton, 2024. Chapter 6: Dirty Comics.

Related to my novel

Most Famous Short Film of All Time (tRaum Books, 2022).