Not until I become a lady of leisure...

On my flight home from Tokyo a couple weekends ago, I picked up the South China Morning Post to discover an insert on The Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2006. "Excellent!" I thought to myself. "What a wonderful opportunity to go to some interesting events or readings." Upon looking more closely at the program calendar, however, I realized that the festival isn't really for us people who work. With a lot of their events at 12:30pm, 3pm, or 4:30pm on weekday afternoons, the organizers were making a loud and clear point. Literature is for people of leisure -- only. I guess that explains their series of "Literary Lunches" too.