this song is the story's ~theme song~

A short list of things I have had to research on Wikipedia for this fic:

- landscape gardening
- Neo-Rationalism
- Venetian carnival masks
- publishing placeholder text
- makes of guns
- the NSW State Library

Metaphors idly stolen from Kiran Desai: 2

Latest word count: 9563

Scenes yet to be completed: 10

fuuuuuuuuuuuck