| From the Outback to the Arctic Circle A Fool's Alphabet |
| "travel is glamourous only in retrospect" (Paul Theroux) |
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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 |
| Honolulu, Hawaii, USA November 200 Three years after that wonderful winter in Germersheim, I was on the other side of the world with Cecile, who I had met there. By the time we got to Honolulu, it felt as though we were on the last stretch of our year abroad and, as we crossed the International Date Line, the difference between New Zealand and the USA could not have seemed starker. Although the weather was good, and the beaches sumptuous, they thinly masked a superficiality which we had not experienced in New Zealand. I would not choose to return. |
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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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