Paksworld

I’ve been knitting again, and the ball of yarn from which I’m knitting (ball, not skein) developed some tangles in its innards (it’s a commercially wound ball; they do this sometimes.)  It was necessary to partially eviscerate the ball (reading into the hole and feeling around and then pulling a hunk out) to untangle it.   This is remarkably like what’s gone on  with the story the past few days, and is a clear sign that my sudden urge to start knitting again was connected to more than hand pain–my brain needed the tactile and musculo-skeletal input.

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So as I’m slogging, lurching, struggling through the mental swamp that is this part of Book IV,  I realize that what keeps tripping me up is the E subplot.  (As opposed to A, B, C, and D.)    What the heck is going on with E-subplot (or, to shorten things, Eplot.

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