The Education of Harriet Hatfield
“Now in October the days are getting shorter and it is nearly dark. Patapouf is in the mood to linger and smell one small area like a guard dog looking for cocaine. But it is restful not to hurry, to observe the people coming home with their lunch boxes, the students on bicycles weaving in and out of the traffic, old women carrying packages of food, and that makes me think of the old woman who used to come and sit waiting for her bus. I have never asked her name, and I wonder whether she is ill ...or her husband worse. I should have asked her to sign the book but I forgot. In fact I don’t believe anyone has signed it since the opening. Stupid negligence on my part. Tomorrow I must take a look, and if Joan is forgetting too, we must put it in a prominent place and try to remember. It will eventually become a mailing list. I intend to send out a monthly bulletin recommending certain appropriate new books.I am thinking about the store rather happily as Patapouf and I wander along. And I am wondering why it is that I am only afraid when I am locked inside the house.MoreLess
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