“Blessed are the anonymous and obscure,
for they shall be least interfered with.”
–PB

It was a weird time in my life, populated by weird people.  Winter had come to Ithaca, and with it the world of my walking life had shrunk to tiny proportions.  Mostly I worked from home, cooked and ate at home, played music at home, felt guilty about not writing at home.  I had been sober now for a couple years, and nobody had told me that this move, while in most ways intensely positive, also carried a cost:  I’d always had a hard time fitting in, making connections, joining the common current of human interaction, and sobriety had become just one more factor setting me apart.  Bars and drugs and drinking had been something, at least, that I always had in common with someone.  So it was winter, and I was alone — Except on Monday nights, when I walked down to a little venue by my house where the Galactic Escort Service played.

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