Three Shadows in "Enlightened Espresso" Café

Глава 1I.Three Shadows in "Enlightened Espresso" CaféHemingway, Borges, Kafka and the Eternal Question of the Right Filter for LifeI"Enlightened Espresso" Café, where every barista seemed to have completed a mindfulness course, and the prices hinted that enlightenment was not among life's cheaper pleasures.Morning. The tables at "Enlightened Espresso" were polished to a shine with eco-friendly cleaning products, and each looked as if it had just stepped off the cover of a minimalist interior design magazine and was slightly judging you for your insufficient photogenic qualities.The air was fragrant with a mixture of: freshly roasted coffee with notes of light snobbery, aromatic sticks of "sandalwood and irony of fate" (presumably), and the faint smell of ozone from countless laptops humming quietly, as if contemplating the next brilliant but …