Apparently, I (along with several others) misinterpreted the challenge of last week’s Booking Through Thursday. See my post here. The challenge, apparently, was to take the two sentences from page 123 of the book and connect them with some original material. Though I thought the two sentences from The Fall stood well together, here is my attempt at rectifying by response. In fact, I am so repentant that I came up with two, rather short, alternative responses:
So I crossed over to North Africa with the vague intention of getting to London.
I had never been to London before, but I imagined I’d recognize it. After all, I’ve read Dickens and Doyle and Austen.
We children of the mid-century don’t need a diagram to imagine such places.
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So I crossed over to North Africa with the vague intention of getting to London.
I had never traveled to London before, but I imagined I’d recognize the path—up through the pyramids, passing by the running bulls, the upright tower (as opposed to the leaning one), and a little stream to arrive in the West End.
We children of the mid-century don’t need a diagram to imagine such places.
I’ll try to be a better reader this Thursday.
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