"One of the great things about living in New York," he says, "is that you meet so many strangers – and I love encounters with strangers.
Literature fans love "encounters" with living or dead authors.
Former mercenary with quirky friends meets girl, falls in love, encounters life threatening problems, is hideously disfigured, achieves super powers, loses everything, makes stunning comeback, finds evil villains who tortured him and battles them in final climactic scene.
The Irish would also love to encounter more referees like Watson, whose intelligent use of the advantage law and dry sense of humour enhanced the occasion.
Still, I would love to encounter a true big-orchestra account of the "Jupiter" Symphony or of a Bach Passion or of Handel's "Messiah" -- not to replace our current styles but to complement them.
Aside from one cross-country drive in my early twenties, I'd never gotten into audio books, but lately I've turned to them to solve a very specific problem: what to do about all those books I read too young and would love to encounter again as an adult?
Indeed, my friends and I loved to encounter them.
The ruling image is never cheap, never related to a simple love-hate encounter.
She found the revellers' feedback "very direct"; she loved the encounter.
As a mostly right-brained child, I would have loved to encounter as much science as possible this way.
