drafting "Reply to the Unit" (featuring dialogue formatting)

(Arguably the dialogue formatting should have been a separate commit in order
to get a clean `git wordcount`
(https://github.com/zackmdavis/dotfiles/blob/9fb0964a/bin/git-wordcount) of the
actual writing progress here, but the perfect has reluctantly made some
strategic concessions to its ally the good in the service of their common cause
against the bad.)