But what came later, the mutual respect, the incredible fun we have together on a mundane evening at home as well as an exotic night in some faraway place, the comfort we find in each other's company, all of these gifts really blossomed once we had more time to explore each other.
So, if you really have nothing better to do or if you lost your suitcase with all of your holiday reading and this book is the only thing wit words in it you come upon in a night train, some faraway hostel et cetera, then it will do.
I am sitting at a little wooden table in the tiny log cabin that is ours for the night here on a faraway coast in Iceland.
There were no dogged middle-of-the-night Web searches for faraway cures for his crushed upper spine or tearful bedside vigils with their 5-year-old son.
By day he dutifully reflects the faces of posing shoppers, while at night he reads and reflects on faraway places.
"Bad loan," explained the neighbor, Alex Martinez, who works nights at an automobile assembly plant in faraway Fremont.
Night sounds are heard: wind, barking dogs, a faraway train whistle, a water heater kicking on, a violent spate of rain, an insect bumping against the microphone, desultory vocalizations of the cat.
Instead, they fall each night when the sun dips down beyond the faraway horizon.
Nearly a thousand American troops had already died in the faraway fighting, which looked so close on our TV screens every night, and upward of a hundred and forty thousand — drafted inner-city blacks and down-home white country boys, by the look of them — were there, without notable result.
And as he eased into "My Funny Valentine," one of Baker's signature songs, his light, clean tenor imparted the same aura of faraway dreaminess as his idol's, which he named as his favorite voice for late-night listening.
Then I remembered that Julee Cruise, the Twin Peaks songbird, had conjured up Alice by night long before on this record where she plays the ingenue adrift in a dreamscape when "dog and bird are faraway," beware.
