My favorite game when I was a
child was Mummy and Explorer. My father and I would trade off roles: One of us
had to lie very still with eyes closed and arms crossed over the chest, and the
other had to complain, “I’ve been searching these pyramids for so many years when
will I ever find the tomb of Tutankhamun?” (This was in the late seventies when
Tut was at the Met, and we came in from the suburbs to visit him frequently.)
At the climax of the game, the explorer stumbles on the embalmed Pharaoh and brace
yourself the mummy opens his eyes and
comes to life. The explorer has to express shock, and then say, “So, what’s
new?” To which the mummy replies, “You.” I was not big on playing house. I
preferred make-believe that revolved
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To this day I feel comforted
and relieved of loneliness, no matter how foreign my surroundings, if I have a
pad and a pen. As a journalist, I’ve spent nearly two decades putting myself in
foreign surroundings as frequently as possible. There is nothing I love more
than traveling to a place where I know nobody, and where everything will be a surprise,
and then writing about it. It’s like having a new lover even the parts you aren’t crazy about
have the crackling fascination of the unfamiliar. The first story I ever
published was about another world only an hour from my apartment. I was
twenty-two, living in the East Village in a sixth-floor walk-up with a roommate
and roaches, working as an assistant at New York agazine.
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