The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (ed. Pan Macmillan, 2012) - ISBN: 9781447227731