James–Mr B in People’s largely tells his story in summary with half scene, through his narrator. half-scene is generally when you provide little bits of dialogue and other snippets of “real time” in the middle of something else, like summary. you find it used effectively in many situations but especially when you need to cover a pretty decent sized chunk of time in summary and want to still animate that material.

I found the Mary Sabon / Duncan Shriek relationship to be one of the parts of the book I could personally relate to most, Duncan’s reaction to events felt emotionally true.

I’m intrigued by these “Ghosts of phrases from Jewish prayerbook” and wonder if they made it into the final draft (must dig out my copy and investigate) – my girlfriend is Jewish and I wonder if she’d recognise any of them…