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I'm not sure anyone's answered the question about the puzzle's title yet. The "originators" have another title that begins "Tell me what..." Applying that instruction to the finished grid is useful, I think. Open to other interpretations.

buddy - I think it’s a bit better than that.

The letters you put in the box actually complete the title and also has the application to the final grid as you say

Nice puzzle, do-able, but I don’t really understand the bars instructions in the rubric…

Buddy, I’m with CD. The first intervention (in the barred cells) answers the title as recorded in a different tense in the work in question.

I was there, too, Hounds. When the final PDM hits it is like stepping on a rake. “Refrain” is doing a lot of work and some of the suggestions about using a blank grid to trace the bars might help you get that blow between the eyes.

I'm not sure that I would have got there without looking at the bars in a blank grid. Many thanks to those who made that suggestion!

A very clever construction, and I can forgive the excessive grid stare!

Thanks, Kea.

My version of reducing the number of bars to the thematic 66 results in a final grid with lots of non-words. There is no mention of this in the preamble, but I am sure I have the right solution. Do other solvers have non-words in the final grid?

0pt0, I think that this is a variation on "bars and numbers need not be shown". The solution is so clearly (and cleverly) right that I'm not fussed about the "word" impact of removing bars.

Rhsl - I am of the same mind.

Quisling #23 - surely the solution has 180 degree rotational symmetry? If not, the required steps have not been followed correctly.