He was born in the city, lived within its environs and for a spell worked in the city.He was and is an introvert due to a wound, shall we say, inflicted in the womb. You might say he was disfigured facially, drooping eyelid you know. That was then; now he lives on an island, fancy that. Not too many people live on the island, fancy that. Not like Manhattan Island, where the crush of humanity saddened him, for he realized that like horses of yore, one was forced to put on blinders, for how could one possibly give of one’s self, anything of one’s self, to those whoevers that passed on by; and that’s the pity, don’t you think? Islander.