Status Updates From Where is Janice Gantry?

"They are beautiful and animated and they live deeply, wildly, constantly on some far out edge of emotional tension. They are incomparably feminine. They need and seek all the symbols of male strength, despising weak men. When they have decided exactly what they want, they go after it with a ruthlessness that would confound any pirate. No one can predict their next mood, especially themselves."

Somebody has to be tireless, my boy, or the fast buck operators would asphalt the entire coast, fill every bay and slay every living thing incapable of carrying a wallet.

When something has ended, you can't start it all over from the beginning. It was the beginning of the affair that I missed -- that perhaps we both missed -- but all we could do would be to start it up once more at the end, and thus end it again.

Mostly dialogue and not much action so far. JDM, however, does know how to tease out character development.