short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, philosophers, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology.

He also really liked to use footnotes, if that helps! ;)

As for Strange's approach, I think he means well, but there is something wrong about it, definitely... I always go back to what the Ladies tell him, about him being at war with himself (his head vs. his heart), and that makes a lot of sense to me, because the deeper understanding of the world can only come when that war ends, so to speak.