quot;Lets do it.quot;
At day, I ter of resignation. My boss it to put me on extended leave for time being. My colleagues artled to 1 ed to quit, but no one tried very o talk me out of it. Quitting a job is not so difficult, after all, I discovered. Once you make up your mind to get rid of somettle you cant discard. No ? not very little. Once you put your mind to it, t get rid of. And once you start tossing t, you find yourself ing to get rid of everyts as if youd gambled a all your money and decided, t . too mucrouble to cling to t.
I packed everyt and need into one medium-sized blue Samsonite suitcase. Izumi took about t of baggage.
As , I errible fear t someone else aken my bag by mistake. to be tens of tical blue Samsonite bags in t to Greece, open up tcase, and find it stuffed y attack s over me. If tcase got lost, t to link me to my o Izumi. I suddenly felt as if I sensation. tting on t plane tacself to some convenient packaging t looked like me. My mind ter co go back to Japan and get back inside my real body. But , flying over Egypt, and turning back. temporarily occupying felt as if it of plaster. If I scratco srollably, and I couldnt stop. I kne if tinued muc and turn to dust. tioned, but I broke out in a s. My s stuck to my skin. An aig say a s on for a good ed to die -- to stick trigger, so t my mind and my flesurn to dust.
After t ligense so time. I fell into a deep sleep, and he Aegean.
t problem facing us on t total lack of to do. e didnt ennis courts or books to read. ed left Japan so abruptly t I ely forgotten to bring books. I read t t, a copy of Aescragedies t
Izumi along. I read to cater to tourists, t tocked a fe my eye. Reading if I ime Id , ironical1y, ime in to read.
Izumi started studying Greek. S along a Greek-language text, and made a c of verb conjugations t sing verbs aloud like a spell. S to t alk to to ters o make a feances. Not to be outdone, I dusted off my Frenc tle island