So, I'm in awe of Michael Chabon right now. Awe and envy. I've been working my way slowly through T.A.K.C, chapter by chapter, rereading and pencilling and thinking. It's like a masterclass. I considered writing notes on it as I thought through what I was learning, but opted to avoid another idea erupting into new responsibilities and deadlines.

But, I decided to unpack one random, long sentence. What's in it? How does it hang together? Because my experience reading it is effortless. Why is that? I thought it would be useful to see what all of the parts were. These were the parts. It's more interesting to me than instructive, but there's an appealing architecture to it. If there's a clever mind here, it is Chabon's.