TriQuarterly, September 22nd, 2003
Travel is broadening, Father said, so I opened a map. When I stretched it over the pool table, the shared desert of Somalia and Ethiopia sundered, just south of where he'd written, next to Addis Ababa, Prester John. Father collected travel books; as a boy he'd met Richard Halliburton, who told him "Seek out the sublime wonders of the world, lad," a piece of bad advice he passed along to me. You'd recognize Father's name, a famous tycoon. I hide behind a nom de plume, not so obscure now that I've been profiled in the Times as before my clandestine rendezvous' with Prester John--wait, I'm gettin...
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