The Extra Shot

That next person you pass on the street. How many connections through other people would it take to link you to them? 'Six degrees of separation' is the theory.

Now focus on a small coffee shop in a provincial town and consider its patrons and the people already connected to those patrons: the café owner, the gallery manager, the consultant, the 'self-made man', the femme fatale, the social worker, the poet and more.

How many steps exist between the pairs in such a cast of characters? Four?...