“I wouldn’t think this kind of stuff would keep dribbling out and dribbling out and never get anywhere “
What makes this interesting is that Ed HAS to continue to “progress” to the end of the story, yet how many smaller and smaller “baby steps” he is able to come up with to prolong the journey.
It’s a cross between Zeno’s paradox of motion and a trip to George Constanza’s Long Island vacation home.
You would be amazed at how quick Chief Editor Korir could “shift on his feet” and get over to another document or some other tangent that would take the attention off the present issue.
I’ll be interested to see if, indeed, Ed Hale has learned a lot from Korir...
I suspect he has.