Mark

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Mark now works only periodically.

This is rather fortunate since Mark has some pressing items on his mind. None related to work, mind you. Indeed all are antipathetic to any real work whatsoever. There is Sarah, the one person he counts on to help him when the sky falls in. And it does fall in fairly often. But Sarah is getting short thrift these days. The other something pressing on Mark's mind constantly, in fact relentlessly one could say, is the Da Vinci Cod.

Some would say, relentlessly is an understatement. Since 2000, the cod, as Mark calls it, has captured his mind, imprisoned it many would say, so making the cod the single largest precursor to Mark's sky falling in. Not that he'll admit to it.

This wasn't always the case. Before heading to Naples in early 2000, Mark was the archetypal young upwardly mobile college professor. Since Napes, he has become more the archetypal nerd savant. For it was in Naples, well just outside Naples really, that Mark fell under the thrall of the cod. And so easily too.