LONDON (AP) — Heathrow Airport has hired a writer-in-residence to chronicle the modern travel experience in hopes of showing frazzled passengers there's more to flying than long lines and waiting.
Alain de Botton,
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De Botton began his stint Tuesday and spends some of the time sitting behind a desk in the departures area, observing and interviewing passengers and staff.
De Botton,
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"My agent and I devised the cockroach test: in other words,
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He said airports — so often thought of as places to be endured — were fascinating locations where big global themes including technology, globalization, consumerism and the environment came to life.
"If you wanted to take a Martian to a single place that best captures everything that is distinctive and particular to modern civilization, in its highs and lows,
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Overcrowded Heathrow is Europe's busiest airport, but far from the best-loved.
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Heathrow chief operating officer Mike Brown conceded that opening the airport up to a writer's scrutiny was "a bold and adventurous step."
De Botton's observations will be collected in a book scheduled to be published next month. Some 10,
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Heathrow says it is the first airport to employ a writer-in-residence, but in-house writers have been adopted by institutions from prisons,
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