Paul Kimmage: The curious case of the flying Dutchman and the missing suitcase

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Paul Kimmage

There was something Tarantinoesque about the way it started. Remember the opening scene from Jackie Brown? The way he captured her in the airport, moving yet motionless on the walkway as the opening credits rolled? That’s kind of how it was with the suitcase.

There had been hundreds on the belt in Dublin that afternoon — backpacks and duffel bags and Delseys and Samsonites — but they had all found an owner and been wheeled from the terminal.