Status Updates From Year Before Last

Part I: Hannah has left her husband to be with Martin. The relationship between Martin and his aunt is unclear, except that she does seem to have a strange kind of possessiveness of him. Interesting so far, but not riveting.

For a strange superstition has survived among most that editors or publishers are discriminating readers. Which is absurd. They carry their wares about in a suitcase, like salesmen for horse-medicine or cough-drops or something worse. Not good tough roistering salesmen with their own lingo, but an affected figure aped out of some London drawing-room.

More richly textured evocations of food, animals, landscapes, and foreign lands and less heterosexual nonsensicals plz.