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Continuing the grant reduction process. Current length: 16 pages. Maximum allowable length: 12 pages. It sounds like I'm making progress, except that the further into the draft I get, the fewer pages are left to cut from.

Also, I can't really tell whether the parts I've left in stand alone or not. They do if you're me, and have the whole complex interrelated web of theory and data and argument thoroughly internalized. Evidence suggests that the reviewers are unlikely to be me.