En Route To Gibraltar

This is only a tangential connection but it suffices for this time of night. Poul Anderson wrote "Gibraltar Falls" and Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander spends time on Gibraltar. Just before leaving Sweden, Salander has an experience that is relevant to a recent post.

After months of press coverage and notoriety as a supposed Lesbian Satanist wanted for a triple murder, she is:

"...surprised that nobody at the ticket desk or at the check-in counter seemed to recognize her or react to her name."

-Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest (London, 2010), CHAPTER 29, p. 688.

 

The individual and her image have parted company yet again: a fascinating process.