From Piccadilly he turned
up a side street.
He was not a man to
waste a walk, even to
an appointment. Women
were coming out of offices
on the ground floors of tall
blank buildings. He paused
before one number.
Graham Greene, It's A
Battlefield (1934)
I try to imagine the gritty English street, the smell of diesel in the chill, damp air, the sounds of the buses grinding past, the passers-by attempting to intervene. I fail.
ReplyDeleteI know. Words absolutely fail here. That doesn't stop Boris Johnson, PM Cameron, President Obama, etc., from trying, although I wish it would.
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