The Pickup (2001)
“He stands at the foot of the stair where the aircraft has brought its human load down from the skies. Lumbered and slung about with hand-luggage and carrier bags, he turns to wait for her to descend from behind him.
He is home. He is someone she sees for the first time. The heat is a gag pressed across her nose and mouth. There are no palm trees.
Ibrahim ibn Musa. They have traipsed across the stony crunch of the airfield in the shouldering of others, entered an echoing babble in which movement... and sound are united confusion, and now are before the immigration booths. A man behind the glass partition lowers his stamp. Ibrahim ibn Musa.
Her visa takes a moment’s scrutiny. The wife; Ibrahim ibn Musa. That’s all; done.
An airport in a country like this is a surging, shifting human mass with all individualism subsumed in two human states, both of suspension, both temporary, both vacuums before reality: Leaving, Arriving. Total self-absorption becomes its opposite, a vast amorphous condition.MoreLess
He is home. He is someone she sees for the first time. The heat is a gag pressed across her nose and mouth. There are no palm trees.
Ibrahim ibn Musa. They have traipsed across the stony crunch of the airfield in the shouldering of others, entered an echoing babble in which movement... and sound are united confusion, and now are before the immigration booths. A man behind the glass partition lowers his stamp. Ibrahim ibn Musa.
Her visa takes a moment’s scrutiny. The wife; Ibrahim ibn Musa. That’s all; done.
An airport in a country like this is a surging, shifting human mass with all individualism subsumed in two human states, both of suspension, both temporary, both vacuums before reality: Leaving, Arriving. Total self-absorption becomes its opposite, a vast amorphous condition.MoreLess
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