You are not sure when the old ennui kicked in, but you are sure the world holds more mystery and wonder than you find in it today. The ever bright but jejune popular culture and the cartoonish morality of contermporary politics leave you itching for something real. The shadows and neon call for you, but you do not want to wander among them alone. Anyway, you find too many of the denizens of the night needlessly cruel, hopelessly selfish, or simply antisocial. You have discovered that those who enjoy a party have stopped looking at the horizon. Their curiosity left them. What used to be their taste is now but a callus, which rhymes with their behavior. Discretion is a word best used to describe what they lack. But there are those of us who know the night—who live among the shadows and the neon and the demimonde. Where others are reductive, ordinary, and simple, we thrive on the ambiguous, the exceptional, and the complex. We are not for those who crave neat answers to simplistic questions, but for those who recognize that a truly adult world is one of uncertainty, of difficult choices and uncertain resolutions. We sophisticates are not depleted by a world that provides no tidy answers. We are instead invigorated by sharing the world's complexity, and all the eros that complexity brings, with another who appreciates just as much the very fact of adulthood. What you need is my mind, as sharp as the edge you seek. What you need is this sweet, full human who does not look away from the darkness of the night, but instead shimmers through shadows, smiling mysteriously as danger draws a long draught from the drink I brought. What you need is my curiosity, probing you to find your heart's desire or your niche interest—and locking it away in my vault so that you need never wonder whether your secret self is to be placed open for the world to play with. I am your sophisticated guide not just to night and sin, but to unfettered delight in the obscure, the sublime, and the ridiculous alike. Come find your explorer companion, and have the adventure you know you should. You might live it in your head: be Walter Mitty forever. Or, you can come along with me and discover the full measure of life. Embrace life and dare to meet your new muse.