News Summary

• Barnabas and Mainspring grew up near at hand, about an hour apart with good traffic, but for a long time they weren’t close.
• Barnabas had a dancer’s flair, an artsy, enigmatic glamour, except that when they tried to talk about real life, they’d blurt out hundreds of rapid-fire words.
• “I really think it would be better if those geographers came to my place.
• I have more space, you see, and … and I am a titan of industry.”