Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I always felt a little bit of an outsider, especially because I grew up on Oahu.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
One of the great tragedies is that there is so much less open land available in Japan today. Many Japanese come to New Zealand because of its beauty.
If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying from London. It's very far away, and sometimes you feel as if you're on another planet. But I like that. Also, that's ideal for writing.
My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.
The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.
No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.
Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.
I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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