Force Majeure
Brief placeholder, to fill in the details later ... just to point out that I am accursed. I only have to think of going somewhere for disaster to fall.
Nepal: mass rebellion and overthrow (touch wood) of the monarchy; strikes and power cuts, and closed borders.
Tibet: avalanches (two!).
Varanasi: bombings.
Andamans: Cyclone Mala... A cyclone. For crab sake.
Apart from the night I spent in a wooden hut five yards from the sea in the cyclone, it was gorgeous. Full of mind bogglingly big fish, and octopi.
A cyclone. Though.
A bloody cyclone.
I thought about going to Ecuador in August, and, sooner than that, Gujarat - cue bombs and riots and terror.
Mumbai on Monday. Bollywood better watch out.
Let me know if you're going on holiday anywhere - it's possible by now that I can distract the vile forces of fickle fate from your path, such is the sucking intensity of my hold over force majeure.
Nepal: mass rebellion and overthrow (touch wood) of the monarchy; strikes and power cuts, and closed borders.
Tibet: avalanches (two!).
Varanasi: bombings.
Andamans: Cyclone Mala... A cyclone. For crab sake.
Apart from the night I spent in a wooden hut five yards from the sea in the cyclone, it was gorgeous. Full of mind bogglingly big fish, and octopi.
A cyclone. Though.
A bloody cyclone.
I thought about going to Ecuador in August, and, sooner than that, Gujarat - cue bombs and riots and terror.
Mumbai on Monday. Bollywood better watch out.
Let me know if you're going on holiday anywhere - it's possible by now that I can distract the vile forces of fickle fate from your path, such is the sucking intensity of my hold over force majeure.
posted by Lectrice at jueves, mayo 04, 2006
1 Advice:
I did read, listen or hear news reports about some of these events and kind of make the connection, yes. I was thinking of asking you to go to some foreign locations where relatives I particularly loathe live, but apart from thinking that might be a bit too cruel (because you might meet the relatives, obviously), I reckoned it would be slightly off your planned route.
And you sent me an email ages ago, and I haven't replied. I am officially crap. Will do so this weekend.
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