While I would never be so bold to suggest that Ezra is any ways reactionary, but one thing that I am happy to confirm is his tendencies to somnambulism...
At some point, at some time, one of my children simply must find a considerable amount of money and/ or equivalent amount of jewels, doubloons, treasure in the sand, given the sheer amount of digging that they do on beaches...
Have you ever tried to explain the phenomenon of "tides" to a five year old? I used to think that the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the moon and the sun and the rotation of the Earth was a relatively straightforward concept, now I'm not so certain...
All the streets are crammed with things, eager to be held. I know what hands are for and I'd like to help myself. You ask me the time but I sense something more, and I would like to give you what I think you're asking for.