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David Lodge, Paradise News

Obwohl von 1991 wirkt dieses "Hawai-Buch" auf mich immer noch aktuell oder eben zeitlos - auf Hawai wird sich, seiner Natur entsprechend, vermutlich auch nicht soo viel verändert haben seitdem...

"It makes you feel out of time somehow, as if you've fallen asleep and woken up in a kind of dreamy lotus land, where every day is the same as the one before. Perhaps that's why so many people retire to Hawaii. It gives them the illusion that they won't die, because they're kind of dead already, just by being here. It's the same with the absence of seasons. We have a lot of weather, a lot of climate, but no seasons, not so you'd notice. Seasons remind you that time is passing. I can't tell you how much I miss the New England fall. The maple leaves turning red, yellow, brown, dropping off the trees till the branches are black and bare. Then the first frost. Snow. Skating out of doors. Then the spring, shoots appearing, buds, blossom ... here it's blossom all fucking year. "