His excesses and failures gathered in the bored room to
meet in executive session. Loathe to be identified
specifically, they blurred the entire session---the
agenda of which was so complex that they could not
even send out for sandwiches and beverages: they
preferred, instead, the precision of uninterrupted
concentration (with just a bit of camp) in order to
maintain and extend the mayhem that continued to
make a wreckage of his obstinately pitiful existence.
Starward