Woman approaches me at bus stop and apologizes. Pause. She explains she likes to read the titles of books people are holding. I show her Anita Rau-Badami’s novel: Can you hear the nightbird call?<\/p>\n
‘Is that the one about the man running to be the US president?’<\/p>\n
‘It’s based on the Air India bombing.’ I reply.<\/p>\n
‘Is it true?’<\/p>\n
‘It’s about the Air India tragedy.’ I repeat.<\/p>\n
After more babble where she says she doesn’t like fiction but she likes Rohinton Mistry because it’s true I am forced to admit that this must be a near exact replica of a conversation I had a couple of weeks ago with a geologist.<\/p>\n
-Do you know anything about arctic cone drilling, I ask him.<\/p>\n
-No.<\/p>\n
10 minutes later after my arm waving impressions he says ‘aha, arctic core <\/strong>drilling.’<\/p>\n When I ask how it all happens he says helicopters fly the gear in.<\/p>\n -damnit I have people in my kids novel turning up in a row boat to do it.<\/p>\n He’s silent, politely silent.<\/p>\n -would there be any circumstances where a person could turn up in the arctic to do core drilling in a row boat or any kind of boat for that matter?<\/p>\n -absolutely not.<\/p>\n -what if they are afraid of flying?<\/p>\n He shakes his head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Woman approaches me at bus stop and apologizes. Pause. She explains she likes to read the titles of books people are holding. I show her Anita Rau-Badami’s novel: Can you hear the nightbird call? ‘Is that the one about the man running to be the US president?’ ‘It’s based on the Air India bombing.’ I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,56,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arctic","category-literature","category-teeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}