Rat Race (2006)
Rat Race
“When the passengers had departed standwards, I got out of the fuggy cabin and into the free air, lay propped on one elbow on the grass, loosened my tie, opened the neck of my shirt. Scorching hot day, a sigh of wind over the Heath, a couple of small cumulus clouds defying evaporation, blue sky over the blue planet.
A suitable day for camping.
Wrenched my thoughts away from the profitless grind: Nancy despised me, despised herself, had chosen Chanter as a refuge, as a steadfast known quantity, h...ad run away from the near-stranger who had not seemed what he seemed, and gone to where she knew she was wanted. Blind, instinctive, impulsive flight. Reckless, understandable, forgivable flight… I could take Chanter, I thought mordantly. I could probably take the thought and memory of Chanter, if only she would settle for me in the end.
It was odd that you had to lose something you didn’t even know you had, before you began to want it more than anything on earth.
Down at the other end of the row of aircraft the Polyplane pilot was strolling about, smoking again.MoreLess
A suitable day for camping.
Wrenched my thoughts away from the profitless grind: Nancy despised me, despised herself, had chosen Chanter as a refuge, as a steadfast known quantity, h...ad run away from the near-stranger who had not seemed what he seemed, and gone to where she knew she was wanted. Blind, instinctive, impulsive flight. Reckless, understandable, forgivable flight… I could take Chanter, I thought mordantly. I could probably take the thought and memory of Chanter, if only she would settle for me in the end.
It was odd that you had to lose something you didn’t even know you had, before you began to want it more than anything on earth.
Down at the other end of the row of aircraft the Polyplane pilot was strolling about, smoking again.MoreLess
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