 requires backstories, and I think this should be taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop. Both page 18, you throw in the Isherwood stuff, T.F. Ball, Restoration, Oliver Dimbley is back, and then you do a backstory on Christopher Keller along about page 238, which is just artful, because you don't want new readers not to understand, right? But it's hard to jam it all in, but you do it, it's a craft. I guess that, um, um,