The #1 focus of tonight's library book was to craft my response to an English lit scholar who looked at some of this material. I knew that she and I had huge differences, but it took until tonight to nail it down, after 2 or 3 years of fighting through it.
She started her study at a different time. I knew that she wasn't strong on the history part, which made sense for a different discipline, but she didn't ask that historian sort of question and go back to the beginning.
So I sketched an outline and started to roll. Sent it to my adviser, who has really been wanting to see that, and she immediately said, "Oh yes, that works."
Book got stronger tonight, and the first 7 pages leave something to make every reader uncomfortable with one presupposition or another. It's becoming something really good and usable.