Three Bedrooms in Manhattan (2011)
“They thought they must have slept for an eternity. Neither of them bothered to look at the clock.
Kay got up first to open the curtains, and she cried, “Look, François!”
For the first time since he’d lived here, he saw that the Jewish tailor wasn’t sitting cross-legged on his table. He was sitting in a chair like anyone else, an old straw-bottomed chair he must have brought with him from the far reaches of Poland or the Ukraine. With his elbows on the table, he was dipping thick slices ...of bread into a flowered porcelain bowl and looking placidly in front of him.
Over his head, the electric bulb, which at night he pulled over to his work area with a metal wire, was still on.
He was eating slowly, studiously, and in front of his eyes was nothing but a wall hung with scissors and patterns on thick gray paper.
Kay said, “He’s my friend. I have to find some way to make him happy.”MoreLess
Kay got up first to open the curtains, and she cried, “Look, François!”
For the first time since he’d lived here, he saw that the Jewish tailor wasn’t sitting cross-legged on his table. He was sitting in a chair like anyone else, an old straw-bottomed chair he must have brought with him from the far reaches of Poland or the Ukraine. With his elbows on the table, he was dipping thick slices ...of bread into a flowered porcelain bowl and looking placidly in front of him.
Over his head, the electric bulb, which at night he pulled over to his work area with a metal wire, was still on.
He was eating slowly, studiously, and in front of his eyes was nothing but a wall hung with scissors and patterns on thick gray paper.
Kay said, “He’s my friend. I have to find some way to make him happy.”MoreLess
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