Hello Reader, I’ve always taken a particular delight in watching people. My guess is that everyone takes similar pleasure from the pastime. The logical consequence is that everyone is, in one way or another, watching everyone else. It is one of the attributes of being human, I suppose. And it explains a lot. But the casual watcher’s eye is as nothing to the writer’s eye, who’s attracted by the sorts of details that can be stored away for later use. Every season is people-watching season, of...