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Shelley, citing what he said was video footage filmed by a witness, said the encounter had “happened very quickly and hectically.”

Neither was slow, exactly, but they nevertheless felt a bit tired and hectically blurred, with hiccups in the horns and trumpets at the end of a long season.

The transformation of these characters is given short shrift by the hectically layered book, but their truncated scenes of inner growth are a reminder of where the beating heart of this tale resides.

While many Western countries, including the U.S., have been hectically evacuating their embassy staffs from Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover, Russia seems surprisingly calm.

As someone who spent the early months of the pandemic toggling, hectically, between dire news reports and “Parks and Recreation” episodes, and who still tenses up during any scene in which characters enter an interior space unmasked, this remains something of an open question.