Philadelphia A.M.

Killing a few hours before meeting Tim Morton for lunch, as OOO’s double-flank assault on Philadelphia commences with his lecture at Temple tonight.

What a pleasure it is to get up in the morning and walk around an exotic American city– and I don’t mean that with even the least trace of sarcasm. I’m grateful to Egypt for many things, and one of those things is that by becoming the new normalcy for me, Egypt has turned the U.S.A. into an exotic country, allowing me to see it with fresh eyes on my rare trips back.

I’d say it took 5 or so years for that effect to begin.