Poached Egg On Toast (2004)
“It’s not so bad, really. You prefer this to the dining room into which you can look back from an inner window beside your table. The outer windows allow a view of the grounds, the river, the uneven hill, a thicket beside three very old trees, the trunks of which you’d never be able to wrap your arms around.
There are two men in the annex, each at a single table in this narrow veranda; places have been discreetly set so that their backs are presented to you. You can only guess at their faces. Th...is is fine with you. You’ve come here to be alone.
The dining room is half-filled—it’s off-season—and from time to time you glance up from your meal to look back in through the open window. It’s easy to overhear conversations because most of the occupants of the dining room are elderly, and speak in loud voices. You, who are half their age, assume that hearing is a problem.
By far the loudest of these is Bert, whose name you’ve been forced to learn. Bert not only has a hearing problem, he has misplaced his reading glasses.MoreLess
There are two men in the annex, each at a single table in this narrow veranda; places have been discreetly set so that their backs are presented to you. You can only guess at their faces. Th...is is fine with you. You’ve come here to be alone.
The dining room is half-filled—it’s off-season—and from time to time you glance up from your meal to look back in through the open window. It’s easy to overhear conversations because most of the occupants of the dining room are elderly, and speak in loud voices. You, who are half their age, assume that hearing is a problem.
By far the loudest of these is Bert, whose name you’ve been forced to learn. Bert not only has a hearing problem, he has misplaced his reading glasses.MoreLess
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