Han: "How are we doing?" Luke:"The same as always."

[rinue]

Have just talked to Ciro; he is safely in Boston and being fed and margaritaed by my parents. His theory is that this whole bit was a revenge for some UK passengers being stopped at JFK airport a few weeks back, as they kept trying to lecture him about racism in the US. It's also pretty clear that the immigration officer lied to at least one of us, and probably both of us, a couple of times - said opposite things.

Ciro has of course had an awful and exhausting day, which he has weathered admirably; that story is really his to tell, but know at least that he's not, for instance, rending clothes, weeping uncontrollably, prostrating himself on the floor, etc. No raging; just that kind of quiet, tired, oddly cheerful "oh, the universe." I doubt any plan will be worked out for a few days; we'll need time to think, and probe, and form opinions.

We're both fine.

Comments

[marveloustrick.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should build a giant robot mouth. I could toss the citizens of England onto a converyor belt, which would carry them past a number of furnaces before depositing them in the large, mechanical chomper of death.

My next level for Unreal is going to require a bone crunching sound. Perhaps I could get a good sample if I placed a microphone into the "Anglibliterator."

[rinue.livejournal.com]

Oh, come now; this is not an issue of citizens! Let's keep ranting about a people, not people. I do like a great many people here, and many strangers have been very kind to me. Remember that bit in 7th Sea about how it wasn't until maybe WWI and the accompanying nationalism that people started taking against citizens for the actions of their countries? It's like that. I could rail against the English national character all the day long, just as I can rail against Americans; but if you start asking me to point to individuals, I have to note that they're all quite nice.

[treehavn.livejournal.com]

but if you start asking me to point to individuals, I have to note that they're all quite nice.

Except for me. Obviously, I'm an 'orrible cunt.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, right - I was talking about the human beings, not mutated half-worm-half-bear attack lawyers assembled by underground criminal syndicates.