Medium Raw

civet

Not quite ready to go home just yet. Picture just a little too clear to get on the train at this precise moment. Better, it has been decided, to fuzz things a little around the edges before moving back into their other lives.

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel—as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them—wherever you

had the temerity

instinctively seek to destroy what they don’t understand and can’t possess.

prurient

There’s a gulf the size of an ocean between adequate and finesse.