Up in the Air by Walter Kirn

Author:Walter Kirn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction - General, Consulting, Psychological fiction, Business consultants, Media Tie-In, Fiction, Literary, Frequent flyer programs, Psychological, General & Literary Fiction, Air travel, General, Ryan (Fictitious character), Business & Economics, Bingham
ISBN: 9780385722377
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2002-09-24T07:00:00+00:00

I stopped in Salt Lake last week. I wake, remembering. I remember that there was nothing to remember, except for telling a man who’d lost his job that careers nowadays aren’t ladders, they’re lattices, and then I explained to him what a lattice was and gave him a model résumé to study. I killed time in a store for an hour after the meeting and bought Keith and Julie their gift, which I had shipped. Then I flew off to Boise, I believe, where I gave the same speech to another man. The lattice speech.

There, I remember now. I wasn’t robbed. It turns out that we’ve been together this whole time, all of the Ryans. We just got separated.

This has happened before. I’ve never told a soul. I’ve met myself coming and going. It’s a secret. It’s only because you’ve been such a patient listener, there in your seat with your drink, your nuts, your napkin, prepared to crash with me, if it comes to that—because isn’t that, finally, the contract between us flyers?—that I’m breaking down and telling you.

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