i'm so sorry i didn't respond to this sooner! i meant to, and then my browser crashed and didn't remember to re-open the page. alas! but i am here now.
i haven't re-read this, but the lingering impression was one of movement, of constant arrival, of never quite arriving, of how to make a home in a temporary environment. and now i will re-read it.
no, you'd never buy anyone's birthday present from an airport.
HA! for some reason, i find the truth of this line VERY AMUSING. i have no idea why?
solid structures housing transience and Ever since you were six, you have been told that your home lies somewhere else
i think these two sentences were the ones i remembered, and i still love them to bits.
Re: ask away, you say...
i haven't re-read this, but the lingering impression was one of movement, of constant arrival, of never quite arriving, of how to make a home in a temporary environment. and now i will re-read it.
no, you'd never buy anyone's birthday present from an airport.
HA! for some reason, i find the truth of this line VERY AMUSING. i have no idea why?
solid structures housing transience and Ever since you were six, you have been told that your home lies somewhere else
i think these two sentences were the ones i remembered, and i still love them to bits.
<3 you are fab.