I make a route to Plymouth, rent a car and book a hotel for the weekend. I only know the name of the writer and how to find a university where he studied 25 years ago. Perhaps two days to find a person in a huge city will not be enough, but I try not to think about it yet because now all the roads are open to me. And after five and a half hours I walking in the streets of a city I do not know. It seems I began to understand the main character of the book a little better when he first found himself in a world of the future so unfamiliar to him. At first, fear began to embrace me, because I was always afraid of getting lost since I was a kid. I can not explain this fear in any way, it was just that I was always frightened by the thought that I could not find my way home. But I have to pull myself together because I'm not a child anymore.
The first thing I do is go to the University. However, already there I ran into my first obstacle - the teachers either do not remember whether a student named John Wilson studied here 25 years ago, or they do not already work here. One woman took me to the library, showing me the lists of all students for the last 30 years. After two and a half hours of working with the papers, I concluded
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There was, of course, an option to go to the publishing house, that issued the book, but it closed seven years ago. It's good that I have the addresses of those graduates. After the first ten nice and not very nice conversations with the Johns, I realized that now I can freely navigate in the city. Few people were really “happy” to talk to me about their student years on Saturday afternoons. When I disturbed 12 people but didn’t find the one I needed, I began to lose heart. And at the moment when I was sitting on a bench by the beach, trying not to burst into tears of self-pity, my mother called. Neither greeting me nor even asking how I'm doing, she immediately goes to the