I know, I know, but I still study your ways. I feel that this ability you guys have to strip something down to its essentials-- more, to be able to identify what the essentials are in the first place-- is something that I lack, and is something that I would like very much to put in my toolbox. I tend toward "when in doubt, add more words", which does not always work.

I still need to go back to the Five Times. I may have identified what I got hung up on.

Also, it is your fault that A. spent an hour last night telling me about CLOBIE. And about the band: Rhodey and the Cloneys. AAAAAAGH. How can something so cracky in concept be so heartbreaking when you guys actually write it?