Gavriella: At an annual movement conference. I went for the first time, and we proposed creating new kenim [branches] and it was approved, which is amazing!

The coffee shop had the usual post 2 a.m. crowd—some Indian cleaners having breakfast before going to work and a couple of KTV girls having supper with clients from the lounge across the road.

The conative, as opposed to the cognitive or affective, relates to purposeful, but not necessarily ultimately rational, action.

At the moment, for example, while a minimalist aesthetic, or the tail end of one, still manifests itself in a lot of painting and music, we are living in age of maximalist novels—books less concerned with le mot juste than with being full-service entertainment centers.