In search of healing, Mona decamps to Taos, New Mexico, where she finds a community of seekers and cast - offs, all of whom have one or two
things to teach her — the pajama - wearing, blissed - out New Agers, the
slightly creepy client with
peculiar tastes in controlled substances, the psychic who might really be psychic.
[Response: Getting at your question in a
slightly different way, one
thing that is
peculiar about eddies embedded in the western boundary currents (there are analogies for the atmosphere too, e.g. the jet stream), is that they exhibit the property of «negative viscosity».