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Random notes from the road - like Kerouac, but less incisive
Submitted by credekop on January 28, 2008 - 8:56pm
A few random notes from my nine-hour bus trip back to the northern climes:
A) Nine hours on a bus is a great time to catch up on reading. I both started and completed an ARC of Peter Carey's newest novel His Illegal Self. Quite frankly brilliant. Carey's writing is unobtrusive yet seamlessly challenging, effortlessly screaming this is how you use language!
B) Nine hours on a bus is, well, nine hours on a bus. You simply cannot ever be comfortable. Ever. Ever ever ever. Did I mention ever? Ever.
C) Boy but do I eat badly when I'm on the road. Would it kill me to order a salad, or a V8?
Tommorow's post: The Jedi's Revenge, Part II
