Travels In A Thin Country (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Henry Reed, The Primal Scene as it were I had to go north, but from Punta Arenas it wasn’t going to be possible to continue very far by land, as the country soon disintegrates into an archipelago. The land simply runs out on you. I could have travelled over the Andes, through Argentina and then back into Chile further up, but I felt it would be disloyal to abandon the thin country at this stage of my journey, and anyway I wanted to sail through the islands. Someone had told me there were a thousand of them. I flew back from Williams to Punta Arenas, horrified to see a familiar object laid down the middle of the Twin Otter. The North American cruise ship had docked at Williams and offloaded the now full coffin for speedy dispatch to the nearest international airport. At least I would be able to get a lift into town with the hearse at the other end. Tucked into the car nicely next to the head of the coffin, I noted that my unwitting pursuit of this dead stranger was taking on a macabre fascination, and as I got out and watched the hearse disappear I wondered if I was about to follow the man’s soul to Purgatory.
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