Becoming a Londoner by David Plante

Author:David Plante
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury_US
Published: 2013-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

I am always aware of, even always in a daze of wonder about, the world I’m in. When Nikos and I were at the house of Patrick Kinross, I wondered why he, showing us into his sitting room – what I guess he calls his drawing room – stopped to stand still to admire, as he finally said, the proportions of the room, as if he had suddenly become aware of the proportions, which I too admired with the wonder of the room that appeared to float within its white proportions, the furniture and pictures suspended within the space.

And how could I not wonder, the other guests at dinner John Fleming and Hugh Honour, why the roast chicken, which Patrick had prepared, had so many feathers left on it, which, however, he seemed not at all to be aware of, nor John and Hugh, but which Nikos and I smiled about across the elegantly laid table?

Patrick seems always to be in a vague state of suspension.

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