Changing Planes: Armchair Travel for the Mind
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Missing a flight, waiting in an airport, listening to garbled announcements – who doesn’t hate that misery? But Sita Dulip from Cincinnati finds a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, the long lines at the toilets, the nasty lunch, the whimpering children and punitive parents, the bookless bookstores, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor. A mere kind of….Read More
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