Transience and idiocy

[wwidsith]

I am at Hong Kong airport.  I haven't slept in 18 hours and I'm in that strange beyond-tired zone of jetlag which is made worse by the fact that in another four hours I have to get on another 10-hour flight.  The airport here is enormous but I am taunted by the huge windows everywhere, showing me Hong Kong, one of my favourite places in the world

Comments

[herself_nyc]

Clearly you have to read from Jilly Cooper.

Honestly, I can't think of anything, not knowing your sister. How about that scene in Anna Karenina where Levin and Kitty figure out in dumbshow that they both really love each other?

[wwidsith]

THAT IS TOTALLY WHAT I WAS THINKING OF TOO!

By the way I am really looking forward to getting a chance to sit down and read all your new novel updates....sorry I haven't commented yet, but I will get round to it!

[herself_nyc]

Wait, you were thinking of Levin & Kitty and those letters they trace on the table? No! REALLY?

I love all the Levin/Kitty stuff in AK ....

I've never read Jilly Cooper.

And thanks, I know you'll read my stuff eventually. Enjoy the wedding!!!

[wwidsith]

I do too, Levin and Kitty are absolutely my favourite couple in all of literature. Actually, maybe there's something from their wedding scene that would work.

[wwidsith]

Whoops, I didn't mean to use quite such a graphic icon there!

[herself_nyc]

Oh, I don't mind.
And am delighted that we share the Levin/Kitty love.
I heard the novelist Jane Smiley recently talk about how unconvincing and lame she finds all the relationships in AK. She hates the novel, which just makes me kind of ... gah. How can anyone hate AK????? Yet I have so much respect for Smiley as both a writer and a reader/explicator of novels.