“Once, six or seven years ago, some friends of mine rented a beach house in a secluded cove on the Oregon Coast. We stayed up all night DJing and dancing; when it was finally light out, and the house was shrouded in a wet grey mist, we slept for a few hours, splayed out on sofas. Driving back to Portland in my rental car, it rained most of the way home, and for a long stretch of the winding trip th”