I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them.
The truths I shun follow me, mumbling.