“Wrong thread. Sorry.”
HA! Maybe wrong, but I related to your post. I read this piece and actually had to look up the word “parcel” because the author used it a couple of times. I guess he was meaning it as in “part and parcel” but still, I had to look it up!
Those uses of the word parcel are pretty awkward. He may have been using it in the sense of real property where land plots are referred to as parcels. Whatever way, I would have chosen another word.