Saturday, March 5, 2016

the last book I ever read (Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann, excerpt two)

from Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann:

He stands at the edge of the crosswalk. Why is it that the traffic lights are designed to humiliate us? Once he could get across from one side to the other without the little neon man flashing at all. These days he can only get halfway before the red man starts his antics. There is nothing he hates more than when the cars start to inch forward. Mendelssohn, your time is up. Goodbye, thank you, now sidle off to Florida. Or North Carolina. Down there the neon man lasts infinitely longer. It’s a known fact.



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