You are sitting in a café, reading something on your phone, when a small discomfort interrupts you. Nothing has happened. Nobody has spoken. Yet you look up. Across the room, someone is looking directly at you. Experiences like this are unsettling partly because the order seems wrong. You did not see the person staring and …
There is something strangely difficult about looking away from the sea. A person may arrive at a beach intending to stay for only a few minutes, yet soon find themselves standing at the edge of the water, watching one wave rise, fold and disappear after another. Nothing particularly surprising is happening. The waves do not …