Highways in hiding

[Ardariel]

"September and October are always the worst," Rudebacher says dreamily. "You just hear it calling. The birds hear it, too, and go."
"It?"
Rudebacher gives him a look that says don't be stupid. "With them it's the sky. Guys like us, it's the road. Call of the open fuckin road. Guys like me, kids in school and a wife that still likes it more than just on Saturday night, they turn up the radio a little louder and drown it out. You're not gonna do that."

S. King, Wolves of the Calla

Comments

[Zanriel]

Ну вот не надо на сентябрь с октябрем наезжать!!!! Там я родилась - а там близкие мне люди....

и все они выдумывают... про всякое - все там номрально позитив и расслабухи и никто и никуда не зовет - а наслаждаешься той красотой, которую природа перез зимой тебе дарит

[[Ardariel]]

Zanriel, c'mon, don't start tellin' me you're not gettin' what that quote is about. Only I'm the one that will turn up the music a bit, and drown it out, and forget. Just don't start with all that denial. 'cause to get it out of my system I need quotes like that, and I need watchin the sun roll down behind the horizon, and smellin burning leaves and what not. Small things. Trifles, you might say. Just enough of these small things to know that the road is right there if I want it... just close enough to not be in a hurry to take it.

[Zanriel]

Hmmmm.... Frankly speaking.... never had such a feeling.... i mean "the road".... i more dreamt about another universe... that exists here... next to us - we just don't see it... or don't want to see it...

the road... in this meaning - never meant for me so much.... cause i am... a lazy ass may be...

[[Ardariel]]

i more dreamt about another universe... that exists here... next to us - we just don't see it...

This "highways in the hiding" thing in that book is pretty much about the worlds that are right there next to ours, slightly different, unseen by most. It's such an appealing idea because I've always had this same thought. This same understanding of how "other worlds" should work.

[Zanriel]

Ach so desu ka?....mmmm... than may be... you understood this in the context then... me - haven't read the book... so to me it just pretty seemed just about longing for adventures (sorry...)

... then anothe thing... wasn't there kind of this idea in the Chronicles of Amber?

[[Ardariel]]

to me it just pretty seemed just about longing for adventures

Well, isn't longing for adventures ultimately called to life by this very dream of other worlds (that other universe u were speaking about)? Isn't this dream the core and the heart of every adventure? And if yes, what's so very different between longing for another world that lies just a step away and longing for a road under your feet?

then anothe thing... wasn't there kind of this idea in the Chronicles of Amber

Idea, yes, partly. But not the form, neither the way of telling. King is way, waaay different from Zelazny. His story is so real that it is almost palpable. As you read you are pretty sure it could happen. Could be, in fact, happening right now. But then again, there's a matter of personal perception.
But in a way, yes, they are about the same thing, in very general sence. But, well, the whole world is the same story, ain't it? The same old story, happening again and again, revolving itself round and round and round again.