The Wounded And the Slain (2014)
“Queen Street was crowded and his path was blocked by groups of people chattering and laughing, or engaged in various business transactions that consisted mostly of loud dispute and vigorous gestures of negation. But he saw none of it, heard none of it. He drifted through it in a trancelike manner that they noticed as they saw him coming. It caused them to step aside and make way for him, staring at him as he passed, then staring at one another in the sudden stillness induced by wide-eyed wonder....
“Dat mon, he move like sleepwalker,” one said.
“Or hypnotized,” another commented. “He look hypnotized.”
“You both wrong,” a third one said. “Dat mon, he drink too much.”
“But look how straight he walk,” the first one said. “He walk too straight to be drunk.”
“I insist de mon is drunk,” the other said. “He do not know where he go. I will make wager—”MoreLess
“Dat mon, he move like sleepwalker,” one said.
“Or hypnotized,” another commented. “He look hypnotized.”
“You both wrong,” a third one said. “Dat mon, he drink too much.”
“But look how straight he walk,” the first one said. “He walk too straight to be drunk.”
“I insist de mon is drunk,” the other said. “He do not know where he go. I will make wager—”MoreLess
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