Gratuitous Human Error

Brief apologies to those of you who picked up last week’s post on Gratuitousness in Fiction.  Due to some weird glitch – in me, not the site software – what you glimpsed there was a very messy Work in Progress that shouldn’t have seen the light of day for another week or so.  (For those of you who made it through the whole thing, I’m guessing the chopped up paragraphs and sentence stumps left lying randomly around towards the end probably gave the game away.)  Anyway, rest assured the whole t...