We carried off a huge load of pears, not to eat ourselves, but to dump out to the hogs, after barely tasting some of them ourselves. Doing this pleased us all the more because it was forbidden.
It was foul, and I loved it. I loved my own undoing. I loved my error–not that for which I erred but the error itself. A depraved soul, falling away from security in thee to destruction in itself, seeking nothing from the shameful deed but shame itself.
But I, poor fool, seethed as does the sea, and, forsaking You, followed the violent course of my own stream, and exceeded all Your limitations; nor did I escape Your scourges.
Confessions, Augustine of Hippo
About
Jeff graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. He then completed his MBA at London Business School and PhD at Imperial College London. His scholarly research has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association and Science.
He is a devoted dog dad.
As a novelist and essayist, his writing explores themes of vulnerability, identity, and the fragile places where people find themselves most human.
His first novel, Florid follows a young man drawn into the orbit of a magnetic figure whose attention feels like salvation until he begins to understand its cost. It's a story in the dark academia tradition of complicity, class, and how intimacy becomes weaponized as a mechanism of control.
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