Status Updates From A Tale for the Time Being

“When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.”

Stealing this description for a future concert write up if I ever do one again—book is getting better and picking up although I’m still not impressed with Ruth’s part

Oliver is a painful mansplainer with the unsolicited topics that came out of him, and though often low-key but still very obviously condescending. Hugely insecure character, typical of mansplainers of course.