Forest Ghost (2013)
“before the eight o’clock customers came crowding in, Jack didn’t call Krystyna that evening. In Warsaw it would have been two forty-five the following morning, and he was sure that she wouldn’t take too kindly to being phoned at that time.
By the time he had closed the door on his last customers at one-thirty a.m. he was too tired to think about phoning anybody. He went upstairs to his apartment, took a short hot shower, and climbed into bed to watch Highway Patrol on This-TV. After fifteen minutes, unable to keep his eyes open any longer, he switched off the bedside light and went to sleep.
He dreamed that it was dark. He dreamed that it was silent. Then he heard people talking. He couldn’t hear distinctly what they were saying, but it sounded like a woman and a boy. Their conversation continued for what seemed like twenty minutes or even longer, although there were several lengthy pauses in between their sentences, like the conversation of two people who are both preoccupied with do...ing something else, like reading or sewing or playing a video game.MoreLess
By the time he had closed the door on his last customers at one-thirty a.m. he was too tired to think about phoning anybody. He went upstairs to his apartment, took a short hot shower, and climbed into bed to watch Highway Patrol on This-TV. After fifteen minutes, unable to keep his eyes open any longer, he switched off the bedside light and went to sleep.
He dreamed that it was dark. He dreamed that it was silent. Then he heard people talking. He couldn’t hear distinctly what they were saying, but it sounded like a woman and a boy. Their conversation continued for what seemed like twenty minutes or even longer, although there were several lengthy pauses in between their sentences, like the conversation of two people who are both preoccupied with do...ing something else, like reading or sewing or playing a video game.MoreLess
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