Happy Adam

Amigo,

Great to hear some news from the far-away desert lands! Been reading Nabokov all morning (Ada, do you know it?). Hated it in the beginning (first 40 pages) but have now been completely and utterly seduced by Nabokov's ornate english and french-russian exclamations. Ah, the old Europa, stretching from tsarist russia, across Berlin and Paris, to London. Am completely charmed. Travelled to Köln for a meeting last week, and was enhanced by the french-flemish-german-english announcements on the train and the crazy beeping of my mobile phone each time we passed yet another border. Paris-Köln (through Brussles and Aachen) is not much more than 3 hours! I think that the swapping of mobile phone operators is the only reminder of Europe's former borders.

Other than that life is crazy crazy crazy here too. Am incredibly behind with work, ever slipping further and further from the lofty goals of my ambitions. And to make time to see Rebekah, my London-based beauty, and to learn this local lingo (french I think they call it, je pense), well I am not complaining but I could.
Actually, I think it is a rather happy period - I feel better than in a long time and I dont even really know why.

Your car trouble and your open-door policies and everything else seems fascinating and funny. Do you think you will be able to feel at home?
I have no doubt you will be able to enjoy and observe. Marius, who I always would have described as European in absurdum, seems happy in the US - makes me think that most of us could?

Btw, do you know 'British Sea Power' and 'Wild beasts'? Quite possibly my favourite british bands presently.

Take care,
Adam