Objects that Inspire -- #2
In the Car with Abdulla — Through the World! — I found this book in Las Vegas when my husband and I drove out there to look for supplies for his metalworking. While my husband was looking at steel, I came across a vendor selling curiosities from WWII.
This book tugged at me, though I didn’t know why at the time. Sponsored by the Abdulla Cigarette Company, the book is filled with picture cards of two women in a convertible traveling the world. The book’s original owner had meticulously collected each of the 160 geographic cards showing where those glamorous ladies were heading in their convertible. Scotland, Indochina, Malta, Greece, New Hampshire and Arkansas and Wisconsin, there was no apparent order or rationale behind the places they went to see.
As I wrote the scene with Ingrid going through her dead husband’s things, the Abdulla book found its place in the story. This book also gave me a way to understand Georg, who longed only to escape. These places would have been beautiful to him and as unreachable as the moon.
This book tugged at me, though I didn’t know why at the time. Sponsored by the Abdulla Cigarette Company, the book is filled with picture cards of two women in a convertible traveling the world. The book’s original owner had meticulously collected each of the 160 geographic cards showing where those glamorous ladies were heading in their convertible. Scotland, Indochina, Malta, Greece, New Hampshire and Arkansas and Wisconsin, there was no apparent order or rationale behind the places they went to see.
As I wrote the scene with Ingrid going through her dead husband’s things, the Abdulla book found its place in the story. This book also gave me a way to understand Georg, who longed only to escape. These places would have been beautiful to him and as unreachable as the moon.
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