I turned the camera to film him. Manu didn’t notice me. He must have been listening to the history podcast that transported him, on any given week, to a different place. This was one reason for Manu’s calm optimism, because he was constantly immersed in narratives of creation and collapse, centuries condensed to the span of forty-five minutes, from which he emerged, taking off his headphones, a little transformed, back in the present world, which was no more or less strange than the one he’d just traveled to.

— Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas (Page 142)