When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

