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March 25, 2006
I love you, Tokyo sociology girl!
I may have got some backs up when I agreed with a sentiment of Samuel Johnson's the other day; probably the difference between writing as a hobby and writing for a living. Which is to segue into expressing a profound empathy with Larry Frolick. He was having the Hemingway conversation over a beer with a tough German and a wild Welshman in a remote town in Ethiopia when he felt his book fall out from under him.
We were basking in our respective glories -- guys writing adventure books about our trips to this war zone or that -- when a Japanese woman, about 25 years old, walked into the bar. She told us she had just hitchhiked through Somalia's desert -- then caught in a civil war -- after "doing" Iran and Syria. She went alone.
"I just wore a black scarf over my head and hardly anyone bothered me," Suki told us, sipping local black tea. "Most people are very nice."
The German, the Welshman and I looked at one other. If our respective book publishers ever got wind of this crazy chick, our careers were toast. Lucky for us, she was a Tokyo sociologist, specializing in this arcane Japanese subculture of students who stab their teachers with penknives. This little desert jaunt of hers was a vacation.
"I just wore a black scarf over my head and hardly anyone bothered me," Suki told us, sipping local black tea. "Most people are very nice."
The German, the Welshman and I looked at one other. If our respective book publishers ever got wind of this crazy chick, our careers were toast. Lucky for us, she was a Tokyo sociologist, specializing in this arcane Japanese subculture of students who stab their teachers with penknives. This little desert jaunt of hers was a vacation.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 25, 2006 10:19 AM
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