Mushrooming

“And there was Marianna Palach!—the laundrywoman, wizened to a husk now, who none the less went mushrooming, and had set up shop. Everyone in the market was laughing, haggling, giving, taking, proving beyond all doubt, whatever the zealots had to say, that the business of trade was one of life’s most natural and enjoyable pleasures, no more to be abolished than the act of falling in love....”

Bruce Chatwin, Utz (1988).