[...] the smaller, everyday cruelties and stupidities for which we are on-goingly available, and which form part of the normal run of human experience. The moments when you get so obsessed with your own shit that you forget the effects you're having on other people. When you get so paralysed by rag…
(adjective) cut short; abbreviated / (adjective) marked by or exhibiting syncopation
those lithely syncopated quintets