He composed hymns, read holy works, and carried his bookchests wherever he went.

What about contempt? Isn't it used by the judiciary as a stick to dissuade people from writing or talking about them?

There are also many smaller intervening play and rest areas to entice the parkward-bound into pausing there instead.

[…] whether Ben can best be understood as an evolved postpatriarchal metrosexual or a caricature of postyuppie conformity, and whether Andrew represents a bohemian hipster ideal or a version of the bromantic perpetual adolescent.