Fox by Dubravka Ugresic

Author:Dubravka Ugresic
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781940953779
Publisher: Open Letter
Published: 2018-02-21T05:00:00+00:00

And then, while he poked around the room, probably looking for something else to show me, V. quite unexpectedly toppled over. He fell the way old people and little children fall who have just learned to walk: my mother knew how to fall in the years right before she died and each time, to my great surprise, she’d get up unscathed. I froze with fear and pity. The old man’s son jumped in and with a practiced grip hoisted his father up off the floor. We went on talking as if nothing had happened, but the mood had darkened. I felt an invisible alarm go off somewhere above my head, telling me it was time to leave. We said our goodbyes, the old man and his son saw me to the door, and as I was about to step into the elevator, the old man said something.

“What did you say?” I asked, stepping back out.

“My apologies for collapsing!” he repeated.

I smiled. He responded with a frail smile. I was startled by his choice of verb, it would have been more normal to say fall. He chose collapse. And the way he slurred the “s” at the end indicated there was something wrong with his dentures.

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