An Audience With An Elephant (2015)
“I could make out that bulk of neck and shoulders in the back row as George sat four-square, hands palm down on his thighs, facing the cameras like a statue in the Valley of the Kings.
It had begun a week before, during a television documentary, when some woman new to village life said brightly, ‘Of course, the worst thing about living in the country is the inconvenience of bulk buying.’ This had stopped George in mid-gin.
Because his wife runs the post office, and he sometimes has to de...liver the mail, he has come to know all there is to be known about village life. He talks of dead houses, where once birthday and Christmas cards came, and now no letters ever come, because these are weekend cottages. Then there are the other houses where nothing moves after 7.00 in the morning because the commuters have gone by then. So there are these beautifully painted doors with which he can associate no human face.
George is not opposed to change.MoreLess
It had begun a week before, during a television documentary, when some woman new to village life said brightly, ‘Of course, the worst thing about living in the country is the inconvenience of bulk buying.’ This had stopped George in mid-gin.
Because his wife runs the post office, and he sometimes has to de...liver the mail, he has come to know all there is to be known about village life. He talks of dead houses, where once birthday and Christmas cards came, and now no letters ever come, because these are weekend cottages. Then there are the other houses where nothing moves after 7.00 in the morning because the commuters have gone by then. So there are these beautifully painted doors with which he can associate no human face.
George is not opposed to change.MoreLess
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