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"Moving through unfamiliar worlds, we carried a world together, full of shared understandings, into which we could retreat. But it was crowded in there, with two big egos jostling."

"I obviously didn't see Bryan the same way he saw himself, which I found disorienting."

"The roaring down on the narrow beach was constant, operatically ominous. [...] The bad news, some remaining rational part of me knew, was the good news. We would never make it out."

Next paragraph: "The bad news had turned good, which was bad. I was going to make it out. Becket, for his sins, also made it."

Somewhere prior to this pg, Finnegan deployed not one but two colons in a single sentence (what decadence); now: two sets of emdashes. The mind boggles.