Christopher McCandless was detaching, separating from society, he bonded with people but he didn't want to feel attached. He tells Ronald Franz that they will talk about it when he, Chris, comes back from Alaska. He didn't refused openly to the idea, but didn't commit either.
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It is likely that this text is referring to a recipe, in this case, we can assume that if Atwood used the word "conjure" instead of "make" or "bake", it is because she is referring to this recipe as a magic ritual that intends to invoke something spiritual, divine, like the bread or cake that this recipe may be referring to.
