A pleasure worth your time - Rietkuil

I loved it and I couldn't wait to leave, and I’ve spent my life since finding better ways to be led astray.

Appetite is as much a matter of spirit as flesh, and I’ve always learned the way some people eat: past the point of necessity, just for pleasure. Hence too many years in libraries, and yet another language that’s still a work in progress and probably always will be. I’ve been told I have an unusual mind. I've also been told other things, but we'll get to that.

I know a good evening while it’s still happening: a conversation that outgrows its question; a meal that’s quietly become three hours; a set that runs past closing; a last drink somewhere that’s forgotten to ask us to leave. At some point my knee finds yours under the table, though neither of us mention it.