Box Nine
“She actually has to step to the side and lean against the stainless-steel shelving where big plastic tanks of mustard and ketchup, molded into the shapes of frontier water towers, sit dripping condiment from their spouts.
She doesn’t know what’s wrong with her. She makes herself get back in line, then she starts to suspect that this morning’s briefing has affected her somehow. Not the photos of the murdered Swanns. And not the prospect of wartime in Bangkok Park. Those are standard elements in ...her work.
No, it was the unusual event, the presence of Dr. Woo and all his talk, his attempts to be funny and simple when nothing he was talking about was either. Parts of the brain being villages. How we make words. Why we understand them.
She’s never really thought about this before and she still doesn’t see a need to. But now, in line waiting to order lunch, it’s as if just hearing this Woo guy, just being exposed to him, has somehow affected her. And so, when she takes in the whole scene here around her, it’s suddenly too much.MoreLess
She doesn’t know what’s wrong with her. She makes herself get back in line, then she starts to suspect that this morning’s briefing has affected her somehow. Not the photos of the murdered Swanns. And not the prospect of wartime in Bangkok Park. Those are standard elements in ...her work.
No, it was the unusual event, the presence of Dr. Woo and all his talk, his attempts to be funny and simple when nothing he was talking about was either. Parts of the brain being villages. How we make words. Why we understand them.
She’s never really thought about this before and she still doesn’t see a need to. But now, in line waiting to order lunch, it’s as if just hearing this Woo guy, just being exposed to him, has somehow affected her. And so, when she takes in the whole scene here around her, it’s suddenly too much.MoreLess
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