This is meant as a compliment and my friend says it sounds like one, so I hope it is: why are the chapters so short?!? 😭
Seriously though, I hope Davey gives Zira a run for his money. Boy needs to deconstruct SO much.
*goes to look up Hayes work*
(also, sorry if it seems like I'm stalking you. I'm just late to the party is all)
I too wish the chapters were longer! I don't think you wanted this, but now I'm going to use your ask as an opportunity to explore why the chapters in Angel-Centered are often on the shorter end of things, compared to Demonology.
First, there's the obvious. It takes a lot more words to express Aubrey's thought process than it does Davey's. Granted, a lot of the words in Aubrey's process are repeats, but that still means there's ultimately more stuff to each chapter.
Second, there's an actual difference in thought process. Aubrey observes the world like this: Observation -> Analysis -> Interpretation. In other words: "She sees a thing. The thing has multiple parts, each of which must be identified. The thing means something, which is then clarified." Of course, it doesn't always go that way, but that's the general process. She's intensely analytical in her attention and perception.
Davey is not so inherently analytical. He's a very strong analytical thinker, but his interpretations of his experiences are much more immediately apparent to him, just from experiencing it. So he observes like this: "Interpretation. Clarification, maybe. Observation, maybe." In other words: "He sees a thing that means something." Or maybe even just: "Here's the meaning."
Aubrey works through more distinct steps, in order to express what she thinks or feels. Davey, on the other hand, experiences the world more often as a gestalt.
Third, there's the difference in therapeutic approach. Aubrey is task oriented. She always has at least half of a plan, and she is uncomfortable with unstructured sessions. This means that she can get more done within a (narrative) arc than Davey can.
Fourth, there's the Intellectual Property that I am therapizing. Crowley shifts and moves and snarls and hops in all four dimensions (and some secret fifth one, too, probably) all the time. He doesn't think or emote without doing everything. Aziraphale, on the other hand, is very still. His face goes through about ten thousand distinct microexpressions just about every millisecond, yes, but those can't be described in text very easily. So, you have fewer overt movements to describe, and you have to be very discriminating about which minor alterations to expression you focus on. Less overall is said.
In short: it can't go any faster. It has to be slow. The emotional beats that structure each chapter have to come about through a less verbose description of a shorter period of time. So, shorter chapters.
Also, Hayes's approach to therapy (ACT) is amazing! It's an incredible theory with truly remarkable techniques.
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