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Thirty or so rules and hard stops ... hitting a wall every paragraph ... That's not a rhythm ... it's a catalog with too many ambitions ... Quite the opposite of Leonard Cohen melody writing ... Imagine the Mississippi River ... steady ... confident ... calm ... slow ... never stopping ... moving as an admirable flow ... Our steady continuous river ... Titles woven into gorgeous prose ... as part of the way breathing vessels have nothing to do with dams ... One sweet river with bends ... instead of a frozen puddle