Balloon boy is safe
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- October
- 15
Just heard that Falcon, the missing 6-year-old boy from Denver area, was found alive — and at home. So glad, though I think this is just the beginning of a real story.
This afternoon like many others, I was captivated by this runaway balloon that took off towards the clouds and which set off a dramatic search. While watching the minute-by-minute film unfold with planes taking off to bring the silver bubble down, one of my colleagues Robert Marchant said it reminded him of the 1997 novel “Enduring Love” by Ian McEwan.
That book, McEwan’s seventh novel, begins with the story of a 10-year-old boy who sails high in a hot air balloon with his grandfather Joe trailing behind. Now today’s Colorado story was not a hot-air balloon, which some posters to LoHud.com pointed out but instead was a helium balloon. Still, the similarities with the story remain. It is said that McEwan’s tale was based on a real-life incident.
Isn’t it the case that fact often inspires fiction, and vice versa.
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on Thursday, October 15th, 2009 at 5:38 pm by Barbara Nackman.
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