Nanagermal

For seven years,  Victor labored as "an arranger. " A comfortable living could be made in this particular branch of editing,  but it normally didn't require much creativity. Notes, reports and summaries written by travelers were sent to Victor for "arrangement " into readable and marketable manuscripts. Not only did each narrative require correct spelling and grammar,  they had to be distinct stories. The last duty created the illusion that awfull travel writers the firm published had the transformative experience of encountering alien cultures. Victor had done little travelling in his own thirty years.  There were summer vacations in various rental homes on Long Beach Island in New Jersey.  After college he took a road trip through the Mid West with a girlfriend. This was little to work with when the arranger job was offered, so Victor searched writers like Leigh Fremor, Paul Bowles, Zora Hurston,  and Bruce Chatwin for guidelines. A patte...