Heliopolis
“The attendant is gone for ten minutes, and does not look me in the eye when he finally drives my car out of the lift and presents me with the bill. I am too dazed to remonstrate with him.
The Marginal highway: eight lanes of stewing anger and alcohol vapour beside an evil trickle of green water in a ditch that was once a river. Amid the rubbish, where the water is deep enough, floats a one-man favela: a platform on old lashed-together tyres bearing a body, huddled in sleep, free from everyt...hing except the foul liquid that surrounds him. In my rearview mirror, a gallery of demons flashes past—the faces, contorted with emotion, of those trying to beat the traffic by suicidally cutting through it on mopeds. Frantic to clock in, they contribute their energy to the city in the hope that it will offer them something in return. Meanwhile, kings and princes roar overhead, skimming towards the horizon, perusing the morning newspapers.
Sweating on to my plastic seat, I am dreaming up an excuse for being so late to work when the freeway provides one: a crash, four vehicles ahead.MoreLess
The Marginal highway: eight lanes of stewing anger and alcohol vapour beside an evil trickle of green water in a ditch that was once a river. Amid the rubbish, where the water is deep enough, floats a one-man favela: a platform on old lashed-together tyres bearing a body, huddled in sleep, free from everyt...hing except the foul liquid that surrounds him. In my rearview mirror, a gallery of demons flashes past—the faces, contorted with emotion, of those trying to beat the traffic by suicidally cutting through it on mopeds. Frantic to clock in, they contribute their energy to the city in the hope that it will offer them something in return. Meanwhile, kings and princes roar overhead, skimming towards the horizon, perusing the morning newspapers.
Sweating on to my plastic seat, I am dreaming up an excuse for being so late to work when the freeway provides one: a crash, four vehicles ahead.MoreLess
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