Anne Tyler 소설 "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" 에서

 

Anne Tyler, "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" (1982)

전에 읽은 "A Spool of Blue Thread" (2015), 지지난 주에 읽은

"The Accidental Tourist" (1985)에 이어 세 번째로 읽은

Anne Tyler 의 소설이다. 점입가경이다.

They passed a sign for Baltimore. The countryside seemed

endlessly the same -- fields of high grass, then the backsides

of housing developments with clotheslines and motorcycles

and aboveground, circular swimming pools, then fields of

high grass again, as if the scenery came around

regularly on a giant conveyer belt. (p 241)

"She's blind," her doctor said, and she reported,

"He thinks I'm blind," not arguing but managing to imply,

somehow, that this was a matter of opinion -- or of will, of

what you're willing to allow and what you're not. Ezra had

learned to offer clues in the casual, slantwise style that she

would accept. If he were to say, for instance, "It's raining,

Mother," when they were seeing out for somewhere, she

would bridle and tell him, "Well, I know that." He learned

to say, "Weatherman claims this will keep up. Better

bring your umbrella." The her face would alter and smooth,

adjusting to the information. "Frankly, I don't believe him," she

would say, although it was one of those misty rains

that falls without a sound, and he knew

she hadn't detected it. (p 260)

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