ded – okay, I admit I decided more quickly
perhaps a situation like this deserved
t nonetheless, I decided it was best to
ly trust nothing. But, then again, what
othing’ as compared to ‘something’? I
ly was confused and frankly, I didn’t
ere this whole train of thought, or lack of
, was taking me.
more disturbing than the nothing/
ing quandary, however, was that I had
that I had to figure out the continent’s
ce and continent size thing by all by
And c’mon – I was on a sabbatical. Isn’t
mething that I should have already had
“My life and my view
of life had changed,”
says Suzanne J.
Levitt, of her South
African sabbatical.
some idea about? Moreover, In a
moment of utter nothingness, (those
are the times I found myself simply
staring into space) I suddenly realized
I had inadvertently calculated the
time it took me to fly to Johannesburg
from Cape Town vs. the time it took me to fly
from New York to California. Even I could do
the math and frankly I have never been good at
math, but I could do basic addition as long as I
wasn’t concentrating on it. And in that moment,
that second before life forms, I had an epiphany;
I realized that the United States was not only in
the incorrect scale as displayed on the maps,
but that my entire generation had been duped.
Wow. Actually what I literally said was “pass the
ketchup” and then “wow”, but because I spilled
the ketchup during the epiphany I did not think
it made much sense to make a big deal out of it
right here. But now that I have . . .