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Ellery Queen was a master of sliding from narrator's description to narrated story and back.

If it weren't pitch-perfect, it would be born-to-the-purple prose.

This might be more 30's, but 'war paint' for makeup.

Many congratulations, Randy.

I'm here ... and trying to clear some tasks to my multitasking limit.  Unfortunately the State of New Jersey has allowed Verizon to completely default on its obligation to keep the phones working in all circumstances, and copper-wired, centrally-powered service (POTS--Plain Old Telephone Service) is ending in favor of Fiber-to-the-Home, with power backup provided by D-cell batteries that are only expected to last for 24 hours.  ("Don't turn it on unless you are expecting a call."--Seriously!?  Then what good is it?)  Worse, I fear there may be active circuitry in the battery box, making it hard to cutover automatically and hard to replace.  I may need to go for a full UP$, with 400 Wh or more. $$$$$$$

I have to clear wall space, etc., while I'm trying to get other projects cleared.

I am seriously pissed with both Verizon and the gutless, witless utility regulators, and I hope that people rip the government officials off in their personal lives the way Verizon has ripped off the people they are supposed to represent.

"Each level was obliquely protected by out-thrusting battlements corniced and groined at the odd enjambments.  Each odd enjambment was set perpendicular to every adjacent even one-way thoroughfare.  Needless to say, the inhabitants were always late for their appointments, if not totally lost."
      ---- =Bored of the Rings=
I'm struggling with some geometrical architectonics, trying to spare the Library of the Academy from the fate of Minas Trony.

Wow!  'Awesome' doesn't cover it.

TW also has one model for style.  It serves her well, for the kind of story she is writing.  It would not serve as well for Amy's story, or the stories of K's world, or for my story.

Here's what one successful writer has to say about chasing perfection: https://accordingtohoyt.com/2018/12/24/drumming/

Short and sweeter: Maybe the author wants to be judged by the words, without relying on a picture to crank the engine.

Corrobative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative?

Confound.  I just put up a reply and it disappeared.

I'm on the smartphone, whose keyboard can charitably be called rebarbative.  I won't repeat all the logic I went through, but it looks like you need the 'ing', to give the 'to' an object that is or acts like a noun,  in this case a gerund.

I've spent the last couple of day's work sessions hunting for the notes I was working on before I did the Count Lundersot chapter.  They include characters and backstory.  I've found most of them, and hope to get immersed and productive before Christmas.