mystify

Its translucent-white flesh — which is soft yet has a bite to it — tastes mystifying: floral with notes of rose, pear and strawberry.

It’s an intriguing addition to the canon, but for mere mortals who haven’t survived abusive, plagiaristic and mystifying advisors to earn Oxbridge degrees — or even just bad bosses — it might be unrelatable.

As warmer spotlights go, “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” may never fully expunge what maddens and mystifies about the untimely end of troubled souls.

In the weeks since, she’s only doubled down with mystifying half-comments and quotes of questionable veracity in other publications.

But the artistic change of direction that it represented, and the angst-ridden nature of some of its tracks, mystified many listeners.