About once a week—more often if he could—he would take an early train up to Manhattan and spend the whole day walking around the city. It wasn’t really conducive to the sort of alpine clarity that had typically been his aim, but, turning here and there down random streets, he could at least manage to lose himself, which might sometimes be enough…

From Issue No.18, published February 2018

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