Apr. 17th, 2007 03:16 pm
My Dinner with Blondie
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muckefuckWith any luck, Blondie's airplane is at this very moment ascending gently into the cerulean above O'Hare. There was a dousing down here by the lake at lunchtime, but we hardly noticed it over our discussion of cinema and sympathies.
I felt a twinge of disappointment that our rushed farewell at the bus stop last night didn't allow for a goodbye kiss, but I was thrilled to have spent so much time with him. The contrast to the previous visit, where we had had maybe a half-an-hour to ourselves, could hardly have been greater. I saw him three days in a row--most of Saturday (sorry we never made it to the Tax Day Party, but we kept expecting him to crash at any time), dinner on Sunday, and then dinner again last night.
At his urging, I picked up Elias Khoury's Gates of the Sun at Borders before dinner at Marigold on Sunday and last night he lengthened the reading list with titles from Hafid Bouazza and Rabih Alameddine and the viewing list with films from Palestine and Iraq. He told me anecdotes about his utter failure to understand Moroccan Arabic that inspired me to pick up a book on it at Bookleggers* on Monday and helped me select an instructional text for MSA at Savvy Travveler on Saturday.
I felt a twinge of disappointment that our rushed farewell at the bus stop last night didn't allow for a goodbye kiss, but I was thrilled to have spent so much time with him. The contrast to the previous visit, where we had had maybe a half-an-hour to ourselves, could hardly have been greater. I saw him three days in a row--most of Saturday (sorry we never made it to the Tax Day Party, but we kept expecting him to crash at any time), dinner on Sunday, and then dinner again last night.
At his urging, I picked up Elias Khoury's Gates of the Sun at Borders before dinner at Marigold on Sunday and last night he lengthened the reading list with titles from Hafid Bouazza and Rabih Alameddine and the viewing list with films from Palestine and Iraq. He told me anecdotes about his utter failure to understand Moroccan Arabic that inspired me to pick up a book on it at Bookleggers* on Monday and helped me select an instructional text for MSA at Savvy Travveler on Saturday.