Photo taken in Galveston under the Pleasure Pier, which, apropos to the text, was previously the Flagship Hotel pier, until said hotel was seriously damaged by a hurricane and repurposed as an amusement park of sorts.
As to the quote, Bowler was speaking to the unsettling nature of the pandemic, which in many ways has “shuffled the deck” on our lives, or at least caused us to entertain the thought of looking at things differently.
It occurs to me... 