Eat, Pray, Love

parachute to escort me out the side exit of the solid, disciplined airplane which had been fly-
ing me during these few years out of A Very Hard Time in My Life. But now my sturdy flying
machine had become obsolete right there in midair, so I stepped out of that single-minded
single-engine airplane and let this fluttering white parachute swing me down through the
strange empty atmosphere between my past and my future, and land me safely on this small,
bed-shaped island, inhabited only by this handsome shipwrecked Brazilian sailor, who
(having been alone himself for far too long) was so happy and so surprised to see me coming
that he suddenly forgot all his English and could only manage to repeat these five words
every time he looked at my face: beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful and beautiful.
Eat, Pray, Love