Men (2016)
“It was six in the evening. She had not noticed night falling—it was black. There were no street lights. At the end of the path she could make out the little red lamps of two bars across from each other, and somehow she could hear, through the humid air, muffled shouts and Congolese music, and everywhere there were insects, nocturnal birds, frogs and cane toads and God knows what other living creatures in the forest, screeching, whistling, pings, beeps, drings, like thousands of mobile phones ri...nging for no one among the dense trees.
She shared a warm beer with the manageress, Siphindile. A thousand francs, a second one, a third. She was bored, at seven o’clock in the black night, watching a French telemovie starring Mimie Mathy. Bored and anxious. So she told her everything: how Kouhouesso was never there, how he was always silent, to which Siphindile replied that the bottom of the cooking pot doesn’t mind the heat. In short, the early morning fog never deters the pilgrim. Where’s there’s a will there’s away.MoreLess
She shared a warm beer with the manageress, Siphindile. A thousand francs, a second one, a third. She was bored, at seven o’clock in the black night, watching a French telemovie starring Mimie Mathy. Bored and anxious. So she told her everything: how Kouhouesso was never there, how he was always silent, to which Siphindile replied that the bottom of the cooking pot doesn’t mind the heat. In short, the early morning fog never deters the pilgrim. Where’s there’s a will there’s away.MoreLess
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