![]() Parsons, who became a fan of such places after reading Airport by Arthur Hailey, had a slightly different brief he was to write a book capturing some of the stories and emotions of Britain’s biggest airport – then dramatising them. With a Ballardian, infrastructure-fetishist relish, de Botton wrote movingly of the 65.7-million-passengers-per-year airport’s glazed surfaces and giant potted vegetation, and the people rushing around them.įor those who read A Heathrow Diary, it’s now impossible to see an air-bridge connecting to an aircraft without remembering this description: “A passenger walkway rolled forward and closed its rubber mouth in a hesitant kiss over the front left-hand door.” ![]() In an idea devised by the lateral-thinking people at Mischief PR, in 2009 Alain de Botton penned non-fiction A week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary. ![]()
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