Will by Barbara Adair

Author:Barbara Adair [Adair, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781928215950
Publisher: Modjaji Books

1. All good writers borrow; all remarkable writers steal. Some of these words and lines are stolen from others. The others that come to mind here are Will Self, Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, Alexander Trocchi, Stewart Home, Peter Beard, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, U2, Michel Butor, Ann Quin and Alain Robbe-Grillet. ‘I am alone’ is from the book The Erasers (or is it In the Labyrinth?) by Robbe-Grillet. This text, however, does not form part of novels known as the New Novel, the Nouveau Roman. This is a modernist novel, the subjective that does not try to be objective.

2. Flying is a metaphor for ecstasy. Flying is unempirical, so in a society of empiricism flying is not flying for it is referred to only in aeronautical terms (unless you are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry). Lufthansa, the German national carrier, does fly, but not ecstatically; it flies aerodynamically and profitably. It is German. Everything about it is grounded in reality. There is only the empirical and the pragmatic.

a. Lufthansa is the world’s fourth-largest airline in terms of passenger numbers.

b. These passengers travel to a variety of destinations in that the airline operates services to 18 domestic destinations, that is, destinations in Germany, and 203 international destinations spread over 78 countries. These countries cross continents: Africa, North and South America, Asia and Europe.

c. Lufthansa, together with myriad partners, services around 410 destinations.

d. The airline owns over 710 aircraft, including the Boeing 747 that Volker is in, and, when combined with its subsidiaries, it has the second-largest passenger airline fleet in the world.

e. Lufthansa’s registered office and corporate headquarters are in Deutz.

f. The main traffic centre is in Frankfurt, with a second hub in Munich.

g. Lufthansa flies to Windhoek, as Namibia is a favourite tourist destination for hungry German hunters.

h. Should you want to read anything further about this airline log in to Wikipedia.

3. Goethe, a German writer, and Schiller, a German philosopher, are famous. Goethe loved the more famous Wagner, a German composer, who wrote the four operas that make up Der Ring des Nibelungen. The Ride of the Valkyries is in the second of these four operas and was featured in the movie Apocalypse Now as the Americans napalmed a small village in Vietnam.

4. The Velveteen Rabbit, also entitled How Toys Become Real, is a children’s novel written by Margery Williams and illustrated by William Nicholson. The book is about a toy rabbit made of velveteen that is given as a Christmas present to a young boy, but then is neglected by him for better, more exciting toys. The velveteen rabbit is told how he can become real by the wisest toy in the nursery. To become real a toy must be adored and loved by the child who owns him (love and ownership go hand in hand). The velveteen rabbit is overwhelmed by this; however, he is also sad as his chances of achieving reality are minimal. One night, after the young boy has lost his treasured china dog, he is made to feel better by the velveteen rabbit.

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