The Auspicious Oyster Part 1
Somewhere in the murky, briny deep, nestled in a bed of silt and secrecy, the oyster—humble, unsightly, and undeniably mysterious—waits. A bivalve of dubious beginnings, shrouded in a shell as impenetrable as the gates of high society, it lurks in the estuarine underbelly of polite civilization. Who first pried one open?




