《屡次想起的人》构建了一些奇怪的国家，比如可以把一切都折叠得很小、把《莎士比亚全集》缩写到很薄的国家；描写了一些奇怪的职业人，比如专为人们在干完重要的事情后划分段落的分段人；假想人类多一些器官或少一些器官后的生活，比如脖子后面长出控制理智与情感的旋钮会怎样…… This book constructs some strange countries, e.g. the country that can fold everything very small and abbreviate The Complete Works of William Shakespeare very thin; it describes some strange professional people, e.g. the paragraph separator who separates paragraphs after a person has done an important thing; and it envisages the life of human beings if the human body has more or fewer organs, e.g. what would happen if a knob that controls sense and sensibility grows at the back of the neck?