True, but he was leaking memories at the time, so I assumed one. The second did not even occur to me.

I'm thinking this is interesting litmus test, similar to

• What happened at the end of The Giver (careful with spoilers!), e.g. was it happy or sad or what?
• Is The Giving Tree a sweet story of motherly love or a bitter illustration of how women are expected to provide all the emotional infrastructure in relationships and no one recognizes this?
• Which direction is the dude running in at the end Henry Fool?