In the evenings, he started working with the pens again. He picked out a new color—green—which he used to note punctuation. Commas, semicolons, em dashes. Highlighted, they became like notes in a musical score, the author as conductor, leading his voice, slowing it down, once, twice, speeding it up in a single sentence that ran like a glorious horse all the way to the bottom of a page.
