It wasn't the weather that made the day, or even the paradisiacal setting, but the people who put themselves -- their love, music, words and sweat -- into it.
It's not that the meals were a foretaste of the paradisiacal afterworld, but during these meals the blur and frightening motion of the week was banished.
And this image of the deflating dinghy was a way of injecting the problems and the unresolved questions that migration brings into a paradisiacal, idyllic setting.
