"I had not even inquired as to which gate I needed to go to to make my connection. But then again, I wasn't quite sure where it was I was going.

"So the fact that I now found myself escaping the moral remote-controls of my politicized dream-landscape and was comfortably situating myself into a van whose cozy interior felt like a well-appointed college girl's dorm-room, was easy enough for me to accept."