[Vwoolf] light relief

Jeremy Hawthorn jeremy.hawthorn at ntnu.no
Mon Feb 22 05:44:47 EST 2021


Some light relief for lockdown sufferers. A news item from 2012 has 
started to be circulated widely on the internet. It involves a tourist 
on a bus trip with a group, who was reported missing at Iceland’s Eldgjá 
canyon. The bus driver reported her missing to police after she failed 
to return from her walk, and a search party spent a weekend trying to 
locate her. But the woman was not missing, and was indeed a member of 
the search party. She was reported missing because she had changed her 
clothes before returning to the tour bus, and she had no idea that she 
was actually searching for herself.

Wouldn’t Kafka have loved this story? And perhaps even Woolf? (Insert 
portentous comment along the lines of "Are we not all searching for 
ourselves without realizing that we are not lost?")

Jeremy H



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