In the drive-shed Hazen Lewsi outlined the boy's body onto the plank walls with green chalk. Then he tacked wires back and forth across the outline as if realigning the veins in his son's frame. Muscles of cordite and the spine a tributary of the black powder fuse. This is how the boy remembers his father, studying the outline which the boy has just stepped away from as the lit fuse smoulders up and blows out a section of plank where the head had been.
(It's better to create than destroy what's unnecessary)
Monday, June 29, 2009
In The Skin Of A Lion - pg. 15
Labels: Michael Ondaatje
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