Update, 10:15 a.m. Saturday This is the unimproved version. I started this post last night in one tab, got this far, and saved it unpublished. After dinner I added more and published it. This morning, I managed to save this unpublished beginning over the larger published version. This post devolved. It was not easy to lose.

But Hemingway had a theory that the first two pages were warmup, and when he cut them out the story behaved as though they were still there. Imagine there is still a big drawing here...

Urban Sketchers ("See the world one drawing at a time")

...is a network of artists around the world who draw the cities where they live and travel to. We have this blog, which is by invitation...