Time of the Octopus: Based on the True Story of Whistleblower Edward Snowden

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The plot and main characters of this story are a figment of the imagination of the author and any correspondence with real people and events is purely coincidental.

The transit area of any international airport is in some ways a kind of beached Noah’s Ark. It is not floating off anywhere. It is not threatened by the rising tide of the next flood. Yet it provides a lifeboat for those who have something to be afraid of in this life of misery and hardship.

Ordinary passengers burdened merely by daily cares, baggage, children, domestic problems and lack of time shoot through transit areas like shoals migrating from one shore of the boundless ocean of air to another. They barely notice those who linger longer here.

The more persistent inhabitants of the transit area – often conforming to the biblical ‘two of every living creature under the sun’ – try to stay unnoticed, keeping away from the well-trod passenger tracks, slipping away unobtrusively into the back alleys and hidden habitable cul-de-sacs of the airport terminal. For those with means, there are, of course, mini-hotels in transit areas, but the cost is way above the ordinary lingerer’s budget.

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