I think we’re lucky to get out of Rome alive and un-arrested, but let’s face it: Burbank had to do what he had to do. I’m too much a coward, and indeed too ill, to be tackling posers at award ceremonies. He’s taken such big risks for me and my publishers. Maybe they’ll re-release his novel to the masses for rescuing them all from the aliens. It’s the least they could do.
Venice is a very beautiful city, but you knew that already. It’s like a strange little town made of chalk and glass floating on a cloud, untouched by the rest of the world. If anything is like an alien world, it must be Venice. It’s big and bright and the architecture will knock you off your feet. It did me. I fell into one of the canals, making a bunch of laughing tourists snap photos of me as they passed on their 30-euro gondola ride. Those pictures will be up on facebook soon, I’m sure.
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