Quixotish

from As It Were: The Long-Lost Blue-Noted Romance Yarn by Amos Bankhead

Taking in the brackish air on the river this morning, I met a dog, and then its human, an affable 40-year-old man who told me in the course of polite conversation that the beast was the only thing getting him outside these days. He generally preferred to lay low in his apartment, he said, to spare himself the disappointment and upset brought on by (people in) the outside world…