My Life As a Fake (2003)
My Life As a Fake
“What he wanted was the girl, although exactly what sort of ‘want’ was by no means clear, not even, I suspect, to him. He was responding instantly, as he had responded to the invitation to Kuala Kangsar, as he had responded to Noussette’s touch in the hammock while the lightning sheeted across Sydney Harbour. He dressed himself in a rumpled white linen suit in which he managed to suggest a romantic, if elderly, incarnation of the English poet.
When he arrived at the bicycle shop Chubb was sittin...g on the concrete floor, searching for the leak in an injured inner tube. Can’t talk now, he growled.
A less wilful man might have given up, but of course Slater didn’t give a damn for Chubb’s opinion and settled himself in a metal chair by the door like a Presbyterian cat with its paws tucked patiently underneath.
Soon the Chinese woman came down and set herself up behind the display case where she once again began sorting elastic bands.
When Slater raised his hat, she smiled, though he could not have known how unusual this was.MoreLess
When he arrived at the bicycle shop Chubb was sittin...g on the concrete floor, searching for the leak in an injured inner tube. Can’t talk now, he growled.
A less wilful man might have given up, but of course Slater didn’t give a damn for Chubb’s opinion and settled himself in a metal chair by the door like a Presbyterian cat with its paws tucked patiently underneath.
Soon the Chinese woman came down and set herself up behind the display case where she once again began sorting elastic bands.
When Slater raised his hat, she smiled, though he could not have known how unusual this was.MoreLess
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