Soldiers in Hiding (2011)
Soldiers in Hiding
“It is a small pleasure, to be sure, but a real one, and it is so very un-Japanese.
There was a woman recently who stood at the edge of the street next to the mouth of an open subway, waiting for an obliging stranger, for someone to stop and ask if he might be of help. Her husband stood with her wearing slacks of many colors, the kind that stretch a little and hug the knees.
When I came into the dim morning they were facing me, so I smiled and heard the woman say, “Ask this man, dear. Older men ...are often the most accommodating.”
She put five sausage fingers between his shoulder blades and gave him a little nudge, a small push in my direction. Salary men in grays and browns hurried by all around us, for as is my custom I had been the first off the train and now my co-riders were catching up, coming out into a grim daylight of their own.
“Excuse me,” said the man, even then standing a little aside so that I could see his big wife nodding a few feet behind him. “Do you speak English?”MoreLess
There was a woman recently who stood at the edge of the street next to the mouth of an open subway, waiting for an obliging stranger, for someone to stop and ask if he might be of help. Her husband stood with her wearing slacks of many colors, the kind that stretch a little and hug the knees.
When I came into the dim morning they were facing me, so I smiled and heard the woman say, “Ask this man, dear. Older men ...are often the most accommodating.”
She put five sausage fingers between his shoulder blades and gave him a little nudge, a small push in my direction. Salary men in grays and browns hurried by all around us, for as is my custom I had been the first off the train and now my co-riders were catching up, coming out into a grim daylight of their own.
“Excuse me,” said the man, even then standing a little aside so that I could see his big wife nodding a few feet behind him. “Do you speak English?”MoreLess
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