- death and the lady.
- sleeper car no one belongs here
- the narrative becoming universal rather than specific. specificity is the result of the audience meeting the lines and bringing them true to themselves (rather than the author).
- i flip through other people’s photos and see myself in them, then flip back and i’ve moved on.
- the old pay for their triumphs with broken hips and irrelevance.
- the breaking of the ring. the curse.
- talisman. bobbles. protection/curse. symbology of fear.
- a man so like coramac mccarthy riding the most run down bus in calgary.
- sharp woody smell of cotton balls. a smell memory almost dead. the old man struggles against his overcoat. is he native or aisan. he stares at the young native girl like she’s dinner. blue suit with tight grey pin stripes. his hair comes mussed from the staring and fighting the coat. tustled. he never quite achieves the poise his suit, or age, demands of him. are all those wrinkly lines and unpacked suits on their way to send off some passed lover?
