My View, 2014
I sit here in this large empty restaurant, contentedly eating my bowl of fruit and looking out at the bay.
A man with greasy hair and excellent posture walks in and sits down at the table directly across from mine, his back to the bay. He looks into my eyes while purposefully arranging on his table, a small paperback copy of Irrational Man beside a paper cup and a rumpled brown bag from another eating establishment.
Leaning back in his chair and crossing his right leg over his left, he opens his book and bites into his pain au chocolat. No one seems to mind.
Fantastic snapshot (both the photo and the words)!
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteI can picture him...
ReplyDeletea sort of rebel . . . interesting that he was reading Barrett.
I always love seeing what people are reading, always straining my neck to get a glimpse of a title.
DeleteNice slice of life (and well illustrated).
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jen.
DeleteI love the scenes you drew both inside and outside of the restaurant.
ReplyDeleteIt's not uncommon to find intriguing people at Greens early in the morning.
DeleteThanks for sharing a fine description of a man, almost in the style of writing a short story.
ReplyDeleteA big typhoon will be attacking our city next morning again.
Are you okay?
Deleteyou are able to photograph a soul, be it through pictures or words
ReplyDeleteI am blushing...
DeleteHe inhabits his planet well.
ReplyDeleteHe certainly thought so.
DeleteI love reading your images and seeing them too!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Diane.
DeleteI love the way real people can become characters. It seems as if fiction and real life blur in moments captured like this.
ReplyDeleteYou have me thinking of something I read in Joan Didion's essay, On Keeping a Notebook. "But our notebooks give us away, for however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable "I"."
DeleteYou could well have taken a photograph - so beautifully worded, without a fuss. Much like the man - a book, breakfast and back to the bay.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Pia. I prefer living life, without a fuss.
Deleteyour blog is beautiful- so special to visit...
ReplyDeleteThank you and welcome.
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