I also want to thank you for posting this Ed. GREAT stuff. I will be printing it out as well.
Yes, slower is better. When you are not comfortable with a phrase or tricky section in a piece, always strip it down the gradient scale to something you can do and then build up to what is actually written. That has been a rule of thumb for me (and my students) for years. They always roll their eyes or get flustered just when I ask them to slow things down because they realize dissection is coming! LOL. Patience with the process and with ourselves is something we never stop learning it seems.
