Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When I have been fortunate enough to travel to London, I hear the many dialects but see through to the German and Anglo-Saxon roots, the transparencies just beyond. The idiom is more immediate, or in an alternate-universe way. How did we settle on "Call me" instead of "Ring me"? "Putting me on" instead of "having me on"? Drugs money, way out--the Latin "exit" just wrenches you ever after! When you are frustrated by a friend, do you say, "it really does me brains in?" Will you next time, instead of "it bugs...
Being a little older and a little wiser, this time around I did not attempt time travel. I opted instead for idolizing adulthood, making it out to be the opposite of everything I disliked in those my own age. To me all adults were kindly creatures who cared nothing for the vile pursuits of popularity and appearance and who worried only about truly important things. They read "The Economist", knew all about electronics and conversed about biology and classical history. I thought I saw in adults the self-control, compassion and intellectual commitment that I missed in my peers...
Ware said it is important for the film to be seen by a large audience. In the coming weeks, Burns says he plans to travel to many different college campuses to present his film...
...whom everyone calls Pete, developed a taste for eel with hot pepper. They were invited to cook dinner with a Chinese family in their home, and were allowed to visit the hut of a Taoist monk--a rare privilege, even for the Chinese. After waiting almost a lifetime to travel at all, the Petersons now plan to do volunteer vacations every year. Says Pete: "We're hooked...
After spending the last days of his vacation at a campsite in northern England, the narrator plans to travel to India. First, though, he agrees to paint a fence for the campground owner in exchange for free rent. The traveler, who never merits a name, really must get going, but the tasks keep piling up. Before long, he's rebuilding a jetty, doing homework for the owner's daughter, playing on the local pub's dart team and running the town's milk route. In this creepy, deadpan novel by a nominee for Britain's Booker Prize, nothing much happens...