Thank you, mrs. I just did a wordcount. Jesus Christ on a bicycle this novel is vastly overweight. My head hurty thinking about it. Yes, I think I will take a week. Partner is urging me to start subbing asap tho! Not sure if ready...

The reason I had to backfill that Yeats scene is because Yeats actually turns up later on and Eva remembers Shandlin ranting on about him - except that Shandlin hasn't said a damn thing about him because I deleted that entire section and wrote a new one. Hence the backfill! To be fair on Shandlin, I think he's for real when he says he doesn't like Yeats, tho their similar states of impecunity might be influencing him slightly.