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November 16, 2007
Nanowrimo: sultanas
It is while he is eating some sultanas, presented to him on a chipped gold china plate, that he has a memory of a tie whipping around his chin and covering up his eyesight as it flags back and forth. He puts his hand to his throat briefly. He has no tie now. Again, he remembers reaching up, as he is tumbling head over heels now, and undoing the tie in a violent movement, and throwing it to one side. Amazing that he should’ve been bothered by a tie at that particular moment in his life or near death. Other things (like imminent death) might surely have bothered him more. He wonders where the tie is, where it might have floated after he had set it free. The woman who has given him the plate of sultanas (I made them myself, dear, I head over to the vineyards several times a year, dry them on my patio) seems not to notice his absence, and he manages to nod and smile in the right places. There’s something about homemade sultanas that bothers him deeply and he finds that he is about to gag, so stops and puts the plate down on the arm of the chair.
Posted by scumkitten at November 16, 2007 01:34 PM
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