I agree that there are too many layers, and Kaufman does come off as a bit of a deeply drug-absorbed paranoid case.

Yet there does still linger a certain sense of wonder at what he means with some of it. The first half an hour is surely much better than the remainder, but that's perhaps because things start repeating themselves (the way in which events unfold) ad infinitum after that point.

And yes, the puzzle's end with no completion does make for a sad touch. But I suppose that's already clear half-way through. That might even be the point.

Some points: I can't see why his wife is such a whore.