Aftermath: On Marriage And Separation
“The cemeteries were bigger than the parks in that town. High-speed trains crossed the flat countryside nearby in great bounds, Paris to Antwerp, Zurich to Brussels, but she never felt the trains contained living people either. They passed behind the lines of headstones, a blur of velocity, moving so fast it almost looked like they too were standing still.
But then one day she got on a train herself, and now it was the town that seemed to move. She sat next to her suitcase and stared out of the ...carriage window as it all moved away from her, the grey houses and rain-darkened streets, the concrete factory yards, the cemetery under the same low furrowed sky; moved away from her like a stranger who has passed her on the pavement and walked on, without recognition or regret.
She is scared. She thought in the new place she would feel free but she doesn’t. She feels tied by long tethers. When she makes the slightest movement, she feels it all along the length of her bonds.
The man collected her from the station.MoreLess
But then one day she got on a train herself, and now it was the town that seemed to move. She sat next to her suitcase and stared out of the ...carriage window as it all moved away from her, the grey houses and rain-darkened streets, the concrete factory yards, the cemetery under the same low furrowed sky; moved away from her like a stranger who has passed her on the pavement and walked on, without recognition or regret.
She is scared. She thought in the new place she would feel free but she doesn’t. She feels tied by long tethers. When she makes the slightest movement, she feels it all along the length of her bonds.
The man collected her from the station.MoreLess
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