Remember Rod Serling's immortal words, "You're
traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound
but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of
imagination. That's a signpost up ahead: your next stop...”-- the The Transit Zone!
Planning on visiting the Taj Mahal, The Great Wall, The Terracotta Warriors, The
Great Barrier Reef. You may have second
thoughts after hearing about the pleasures of the transit zone of the Moscow
Airport. Besides a T.G.I. Friday’s and Burger King, you might can enjoy celebrity
spotting like guess who? Our modern day Clark and Lois, Ed Snowden and his
WikiLeaks sidekick Sarah Harrison (“A Stakeout Grinds On in Airport Limbo,” NYT, 6/25/13) And then there are all the locked doors.
Behind one of them is, you guessed it, Ed Snowden. The transit area of the Moscow
airport is the place to go if you want to be free, at least according to
Vladimir Putin, who has declared it the Cayman Islands for those who are
seeking freedom from their political liens. There have been rumors that Ed Snowden and Sarah Harrison are actually
rehearsing Chekhov’s The Three Sisters behind one of those locked doors. You
remember the line "to Moscow?" It was the fate of Chekhov’s three sisters never
to satisfy their dreams, but in the contemporary updating not getting there is
a boon since it means our two feckless characters can remain in The Transit
Zone!
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Your Next Stop--The Transit Zone!
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