Brew prepared his dispatches for publication,
as-is, live, one take, no safety net, and just as he was ready to go to press with
them his publisher went tango uniform, or tits-up.
Is this last book, or
this book?
The Curse of Lono. See next entry.
At the very least
there would be cash flow difficulties. An attenuation of resources. Brew's book
would enjoy a lower priority.
A book was a luxury, compared to food, shelter,
clothing, and transportation. Even Thoreau found this out, in Walden, when
he had to move back in with his parents, the prototypical boomerang child.
You can't run a marathon in flip-flops.