The Upright Man
“The hotel looked like it had been built to withstand sustained bombing. We liked that about it. We arrived in town late the previous night and decided not to drive any farther. Until we had a plan, and somewhere in particular to go, we could be heading in one of many wrong directions. We went to the desk separately and booked rooms on different floors and went upstairs and went to sleep. Early the next day we walked out into the downtown. We walked and we walked but couldn’t work out where to g...o or what to do. There’s something very alienating about stores when you have no interest in shopping. Who are these people? What are they buying, and why? They seem no less weird and irrelevant than the boarded-up fronts or the graffiti-strewn alleyways between abandoned warehouses. Weirdly, I thought I saw some letters I recognized on a door down one of these, but closer inspection showed the second letter was a B, not an R. I think. I’m not sure. I was feeling pretty paranoid.Late morning had found us back in my hotel room.MoreLess
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