And Kraznahorkai takes the Nobel. Bien fait. Mulling completely destroying the careful budgeting, booking a bus to Budapest, ordering a glass or two of unicum, reading an ebook, and taking it from there. Will likely stay at Hans Castorp's largely empty (but pleasant) mountain villa instead, staring out at the snow-covered peaks, newly visible, as the rain and clouds have let up. And, of course, the ebooks. Sufficient is the day. And the ebook.
There was a long interview on YT that I was meaning to watch, but never got past the first ten minutes or so. Apparently, he uses the mental composition method (Edward Albee once said he did the same) for long stretches of text and then records them.