December 6, 2008

overheard conversation and M. de La Rochefoucauld

Girl 1: …and I’d get lifts there regularly with this, like, bloke, from… but then later this bloke, like he’s older, and I think he’s getting, you know, and I think… well, he’s sort of middle aged and, anyway, you know what, he’s killed in a car crash next week. It’s so funny [she actually laughs and her friend laughs too], I mean, it’s like, you know, but it’s really funny [more laughter from both]. Of course I don’t, like, get the lifts now…

on George Szirtes

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  1. Lucy Foley on December 6th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    So I was seeing it as a Winogrand photograph, but now I’m reading it as a Carver short story. Wonder what it’ll be by the end of the day?

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