CHAPTER 17
Distant Voyage The man next to me during the flight is a corpulent big guy with big arms and such a size that he invades part of my seat too. He feels like chatting relentlessly throughout the flight but his English is so heavy that I can’t follow him and I struggled to answer him just two times. He only stops to go to the toilet and to sip the white wine he took with the lunch provided by the flight attendants. A few rows up, I hear my two colleagues laughing and joking during the duration of the whole flight and sometimes they turn to try to save me from my not exactly pleasant company but unsuccessfully, turning back with fake smiles and shrugging at any attempt. In fact, the plane is full and there’s no way to c
