Brooding: the evolution of a story idea

The Reluctant Suicide ... CJ on the road ... ready to pass and angry this is neither easy nor accepted as rational ... he needs a companion ... enter Brinkley ... a long dialogue and argument on the road during a marathon game of gin rummy ... CJ the cynic ... Brinkley needs optimism and reason for it ... enter Chesterton ... Brinkley as modern Chesterton ... like Chesterton v Sartre ... how to live in corrupt world ... how to explain evil ... Catholic v existentialist ... whole cloth re my favorite aunt's conversion to Catholicism ... these bones hidden with entertaining flesh ... humor adventures surprises ... surface entertainment deeper complexity ... ah Durrenmatt always the model.