AS he rolled a postprandial cigarette, the man explained that he was from Moscow, that he had been in New York for four years, that he did not want to give his name and that he lived across the East River in a building on Wards Island.
When you eat the powdered rocks, the man explains as he points, it absorbs the toxins and heavy metals in your intestines.
The highlight for me, however, was hitchhiking back from the volcano with a couple of transplanted French people, the man explaining, as he yanked open the broken door of his pick-up, that their relationship was new and "so far, so good," and the woman, a doctor, telling me how she treated her patients with both yoga and pharmaceuticals back in St. Denis, the capital city.
De Kock, unsettled and outnumbered, listened as Fullard and the men explained that they were looking for those who had disappeared without a trace, by his hand or by those he might know.
One of the men explained this to him as gently as possible.
As the young man explained hedge funds, private equity, mezzanine finance, leveraged deals and short-selling, Mr Monks's eyes widened.
As one university man explained: It's not acceptable if a man does that as it's truly his personality which is at stake.
Or, as the man himself explained in a 2015 New Yorker profile: "Show me, it's show-me time.
The 46-year-old Gwich'in First Nation man explained that as soon as he walked in the doors several airport security officers started following him around.
As Saw V, a 20-year-old man, explained: 'they are afraid that the neighbours will gossip about them'.
