Trail of the Twisted Cros (2009)
“They were arranged in sweeping rows of chaise longues as if interested only in the strong sun and sea air, as if it were somehow necessary, in the privileged indolence that was their lot in life, to seek peace and quiet from imagined business.
One deck below, the rope-enclosed volleyball court was an eye-catching swirl of harder and younger bodies leaping and stretching to keep up the game that would give one and all a social bond useful to some quieter evening activity, though no less stre...nuous.
Watching this group, surreptitiously, was an embankment of potbellied, spindly-legged old men wrapped in terrycloth towelings, men who sadly imagined themselves in the place of their younger counterparts, frolicking in some distant past with delightful visions of leggy young women their various wives never were.
Along the narrow promenade decks strolled middle-aged lovers—married, though not necessarily to one another—the occasional sharply uniformed officer wishing to be noticed by someone who could help him pass the time comfortably, and the rare child in parental tow.MoreLess
One deck below, the rope-enclosed volleyball court was an eye-catching swirl of harder and younger bodies leaping and stretching to keep up the game that would give one and all a social bond useful to some quieter evening activity, though no less stre...nuous.
Watching this group, surreptitiously, was an embankment of potbellied, spindly-legged old men wrapped in terrycloth towelings, men who sadly imagined themselves in the place of their younger counterparts, frolicking in some distant past with delightful visions of leggy young women their various wives never were.
Along the narrow promenade decks strolled middle-aged lovers—married, though not necessarily to one another—the occasional sharply uniformed officer wishing to be noticed by someone who could help him pass the time comfortably, and the rare child in parental tow.MoreLess
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