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Posted on June 29, 2008 @ 4:10 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog,indonesia,people,travel,wordpress

java aynaku travel illustration

The train from Jakarta to Surabaya had slowly left in the late afternoon; sitting in my second class berth, I was contemplating the nearby thriving tropical landscape from one of the wagon’s window, when a fellow swiftly entered my compartment. He was an elderly tall man with an old fashioned suit on. This unexpected travelling companion fascinated me immediately. Actually he looked like one of Conrad’s literary heroes, with a deep mystery of his own. I fancied about him, a man travelling on a shoestring at a time in his life when most of people have settled down for ever…I started to gaze at him apprehensively, somehow trying to send him a silent and gentle enquiry: “just talk to me”. On the contrary the old man looked at me fiercely for some everlasting seconds, then got up and- as quickly as he had entered-he got out and vanished…
I wonder if he had put me at the top of his danger list just for being so much like he was.

Illustration Friday’s topic is: fierce

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6 people have left comments

This is very compelling; loved reading the text and wished I had this ‘book’ on my bedside table. Cool.

Connie Martin wrote on July 2, 2008 - 11:39 pm UTC

yay! this reminds me of the old dutch folks we were with on the bus when i went to paris. we had this packaged tour and they just went out of their room when there is an agenda in the itinerary.. which is only one place to go to in a day.. while i went out and only back to the hotel to sleep for a few hours then out again! they were too scared to explore paris on their own. gee what a vacation.. sitting in the hotel room huh.

velvet wrote on July 3, 2008 - 7:28 am UTC

Molto affascinante, aiutata dall’illustrazione ho letto il tuo racconto come se stessi guardando un buon vecchio Hitchcock … grande !!!
ciao Vit

Faruffa wrote on July 3, 2008 - 6:54 pm UTC

Ciao ciao Aynaku! Spero ti goda il bel mare! Un abbraccio. AUGH! fresco!

:-)

vanna wrote on July 8, 2008 - 9:09 am UTC

Maganda!

isay wrote on July 11, 2008 - 11:13 am UTC

Ciao Massimo, sul mio blog ti aspetta un premio!!!

faruffa wrote on July 14, 2008 - 3:17 pm UTC

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