"I admit, I haven't kept up with the stories since I got out of the hospital, but it did make those few days go by faster than they might have otherwise," he says. "This place is odd in that regard. In most regards, but I think about media consumption and what it was like at home and even for someone like me, who was... well, a little busy doing other things, it's not as if you could avoid it entirely."

He'd known what movies were coming out, he would hear popular music on the radio, he could hum along to some of those songs, but it's not the same in Darrow It's as if nothing has managed to cross over except for them and sometimes a few of their personal belongings.

"Here, though, it's all foreign," he says. "I haven't the slightest idea who these pop stars are or what the movies are based on."