Paradise by McMurtry Larry

Author:McMurtry, Larry [McMurtry, Larry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010-05-24T04:00:00+00:00

I HAD NOT EXPECTED to expend much social energy on this trip, but now find that I’m expending a lot. Instead of being lonely for lack of a crowd, I find I’m vaguely lonely within the crowd—this despite forming nice, light friendships with the Colfoxes, the Ercolinos, the Quarzo-Cerinas, the Charlets. I also spend a good deal of time gossiping with Neil Shepard, the poet husband of the anthropologist Kate Riley. Neil keeps trying to read The Witness of Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz but is beset by interruptions, mainly from his young daughter, Anna, but also from various passengers who want to know what he’s reading. He is still working on Milosz when he disembarks.

The real difference between normal life and shipboard life, of course, is the telephone. It has been almost fifty years since I’ve been without easy use of a telephone. I wanted to try my Polynesian phone card on Ua Pou, but could not find an empty phone booth. The youth of Polynesia, like their peers everywhere, like to talk on the phone. I wanted to check on my mother but did not like to trouble the captain to allow me to try the phone on the bridge. The captain is a friendly fellow in shorts and a T-shirt who likes to play the ukulele when his ship is at anchor. He is very far from being a starched-whites kind of captain. I did occasionally bother him, in order to try the phone on the bridge, but never succeeded in reaching anywhere.

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