The Flight Line Commedia Skip Harris 9781300189664 Books
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The Flight Line Commedia is a humorous and poetic description of modern air travel based on Dante Alighieri's 14th century masterpiece, La Divina Commedia. The journey begins with the author lost in a dark, forbidding wilderness, in this case McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas (LAS). Thus begins the author's not so metaphorical "Infernal Return" home. With the help of his guide, Virgil, he journeys beneath the airport, meeting souls condemned to poetic justice for their sins as obnoxious airline travellers. Each level down takes him to more serious sinners until the worst sinners of all, The Managers. Finally, leaving purgatory behind, he emerges to the light of a new dawn, where his angel, the flight attendant Beatrice, guides him to his plane. The Flight Line Commedia remains true to Dante's unique rhyme scheme, with references to The Inferno as well as Star Wars and The Simpsons. It was the first-place winner in the 2011 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest.
The Flight Line Commedia Skip Harris 9781300189664 Books
As someone who has traveled by plane extensively, I highly recommend this humorous look at air travel. I have reread it several times and get something new out of it each time.Product details
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The Flight Line Commedia Skip Harris 9781300189664 Books Reviews
I really Loved the book and the illustrations were so beautiful. Really glad a friend recommended this book to me.
Excellent collaboration between the author and the artist who created the illustations. As someone who travels the majority of the year through airports, and spent many hours in McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, the book and illustrations took me back in time. It is as if the author and artist was watching me in the airport reading the newspaper while leaning against the slot machine, and catching my thoughts.
Skip Harris's The Flight Line Commedia is a wonderful homage to Dante and the true horrors of airplane travels. We have all wished for relief from the long wait in security, the disregard for personal privacy while searched, and the internal anxiety of waiting and being too close to other human beings... Bravo to Harris for creating a funny yet emotionally accurate poetic account! Get a copy for the people in your life who travel too much. Check out the detailed black and white scratchbord illustrations inside by artist Karina Godoy.
What better time than the holiday season to be reminded of the joys of air travel. In this lovely homage to Dante, Mr. Harris, or "Skip," if I may be so bold, explores the universal truths behind air travel during the holidays, the "rank cabooses" of babies whose parents believe that tray tables are also changing tables, the self importance of cell phone conversationalists, the surplus size passengers who bring new meaning to the tragedy of the commons and the parsimonious bureaucrats who make it all possible. Skip, who probably acquired his nickname because he was never permitted to skip through airport security lines, gives us all a fresh insight into an experience we all share and which contributes to our understanding of the human condition. All delivered with an easy conversational use of rhyming verse that is reminiscent of Robert Service. I recommend this as a "must" holiday read.
As someone who has traveled by plane extensively, I highly recommend this humorous look at air travel. I have reread it several times and get something new out of it each time.
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