| From the Outback to the Arctic Circle A Fool's Alphabet |
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| Last updated: Saturday, 26 January, 2003 |
| From A to Z "'I could have told you a completely different set of stories and you would have formed a completely different idea of me�,� he tells her by the time he reaches the destination �X�. ��I mean,� Pietro went on, �I told you about Laura, but I didn�t tell you about Gabriella, did I? I never told you about India or the week I spent in Rio.� I could have been lying, couldn�t I?� he said. �I could have made it all up. I haven�t, of course. But suppose I had told you different things. Even at the age of twenty-six I could have chosen different things. Would you have reached a different diagnosis?� ' I don�t believe in your paradoxical view of things. I could honestly have given you a different story, without lying, just by choosing different things, and you�d never have been any the wiser.� At last Dr Simon was provoked, though it was to laughter. �There is no grand pattern with neat, interlocking junctions, no one truth to a human personality,� she said. �Another version would have been just as good.�� A Fool's Alphabet by Sebastian Faulks |
| inside Ian's Website you will find... life is a real-time autobiography that grows as the years go by me is a name i call myself travel is from the outback to the arctic circle journalist is what i try to do but i can't hack it music is the food of love but you probably think i'm on a pretty poor diet books is what you should be reading and main index is where everything begins a bit like genesis |
| Denver, Colorado, USA September 1996 I was mid-way through my journey across the USA and Denver was the low point. It was a Sunday, everything was closed down and I felt real loneliness. I had had an overnight bus journey from Nebraska and was tired. Tired of travelling maybe. �Incredibly thick fog greeted my arrival in Denver but that soon cleared when we got to the city. I was grabbed in Denver Greyhound station by the tourist information man, �Big John�, who is apparently quite famous. He gave me a list to do in the city and pointed the way to the youth hostel. Unfortunately the entertainment and friendliness in Denver ended right there� �I went back on to 16th Street, wandering in and out of the sparse shops. I even bought a shirt to go out in when I get home, mostly to fill up some time� �I never did get to a restaurant, choosing instead a Subway for a foot-long roll. As dusk fell, I walked back to the hostel and, with tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat, I went to bed. �I got out of Denver as quick as I could this morning.� Diary Entry 8/9/96 Things improved from then on. Not long after writing that I arrived in Grand Junction, Colorado, where I stayed almost a week, enjoying a solitary bicycle ride in the Rockies on my twentieth birthday. |
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| Choose your place, either from A to Z or at random, there is no neat interlocking pattern... |
| 4 Angers 4 Bangkok 4 Childers 4 Denver 4 Exmouth 4 Flam 4 Germersheim 4 Honolulu 4 Istanbul 4 Jaipur 4 Krakow 4 Lebanon 4 Melaka |
| 4 New York 4 Oxford 4 Paris 4 Queenstown 4 Rotaroa 4 San Miguel 4 Thessalonika 4 Uig 4 Vancouver 4 Wittenoom 4 aiX-les-Bains 4 Yulara 4 Zermatt |
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