Status Updates From El asiento del conductor

At the hotel desk she seems rather confused as if she is not quite sure where she is.

‘It is confusing,’ she says in English, handing over her passport.

‘Yes, you left part of yourself at home,’ the concierge says. ‘That other part, he is still en route to our country but he will catch up with you in a few hours’ time. It’s often the way with travel by air, the passenger arrives ahead of himself.‘

‘I hate rice,’ she says.

‘No, you only think you do. He who hath ears let him hear.’ He smiles widely towards her, he breathes into her face and touches her knee. She eats on with composure. ‘I’m an Enlightenment Leader in the movement,’ he says.

‘You know what Yin is?’ he says.

She says, ‘Well, sort of …’in a vaguely embarrassed way, ‘but it’s only a snack, isn’t it?’

‘Yin,’ says Bill, ‘is the opposite of Yang.’

“She will be found tomorrow morning dead…”

Then she had begun to laugh hysterically. She finished laughing and started crying all in a flood. As she ran to the lavatory she shouted to the whole office who somehow or other were trying to follow or help her. 'Leave me alone! It doesn't matter.' Half an hour later they said, 'You need a good holiday, Lise. You need your vacation. I'm going to have it, she said, 'I'm going to have the time of my life,'