Tomorrow I’ll address some of the comments I’ve been remiss in answering. The past few days, I’ve had my Jane Jacobs post keeping me up right up until the full calendar day has been exhausted. Life catches up.

Comments are a bit beyond me. I’d love to have more, but this material’s alot to take on. I don’t expect many readers to follow along with me through much of this. Sometimes I barely get a chance to reflect on the material. I feel like I’m giving short shrift to the material that’s only undergoing my first read.

Jacobs recognizes the difficulty in expository dialogue concerning the material at hand in Systems of Survival - one of the reasons she uses multiple characters. However, it also makes it difficult to follow my usual form: expository with a dash of wise Jacobs voice.

Before I resort to Cliffs’ Notes-ing my way through Systems of Survival for all of you, I’ll try out a couple of different post formats:

1. Annotated outline
2. Character sketches
3. TBD

I got excited when starting Dark Age Ahead because of familiar subject matter. I joked with someone yesterday that I sleep with The Death and Life of Great American Cities under my pillow. Here, with Systems of Survival, I’ll have to rely on my affinity for unpacking systems and my amateur stints at writing and editing fiction.

And any feedback you’ve got would greatly benefit the system here.