A Phil's style is fragmentary and aphoristic. Some of the facts and sayings are interesting. Most just sit there on the page and don't add to the story. What I did find worthwhile was tracing the several tense and pronoun changes. They used to send each other letters the return address was always the same department of speculation. All the letters are still on their house he has a box of them on his desk as does she. The wife is afraid she's afraid again in the old way she thought it was done until he died. If he died she almost said if she loved him so much she contrived to say she did say loved She noticed tense tense the wife always