For years and years and years and years and years I tried to put a name on that feeling. Pin it down, tie it up, define it. Oy. Amazing one can came out the other end of that tunnel.
Remember those people who bottle it up, sometimes they just need to let it out, with someone they trust completely. They don’t need to snap, to curse, to lash out — they just need a well to drop it in.
I’m really not sure if denouement is at the bus stop, or once the bus pulls out. I guess it depends which movie you’re living in.
Some trips I’ve taken feel this way. I just went from NY to Jackson Wyoming via three flights and two busses, and sleeping in a small bus station int he middle of nowhere two time zones away. I was very disoriented when I got there.
It was so strange writing Bruno’s life somewhat in realtime (the crash referred to actually happened the day before), usually writing and drawing it the day before, and so when things happened, I could put it in. Made it a real journal of a time and place of my life for me.
As you might notice in the notes, they are referring to the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 on November 12th, 2001.
I still totally shut down and dislike the world when I’m around television. It’s just not my thing I guess. It was interesting making that a part of her personality.
Good friends are like that, that just care to hear from you, not about the fact that you haven’t called.