Life After God by Douglas Coupland

Author:Douglas Coupland [Coupland, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781471105586
Google: 4185HwEolMQC
Amazon: 0671874349
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 1995-03-02T06:00:00+00:00

And he wasn’t really talking to me, either—he was broadcasting—like a cheap AM radio station that had come through on the SEEK button. I wish I could say that we talked about simple things while we walked, too—that he offered me salt-of-the-earth insight into life—wisdom garnered from all his years of drifting. But he didn’t. He never even volunteered his name and I never volunteered mine. He talked some more about the evening’s rainfall that was never to arrive. He talked about a Republican conspiracy; about the Colorado River; about Princess Caroline of Monaco. I only half paid attention to his words, as though I was driving. He told me he was walking to Indio. He asked me, “Now where’d you be headin’ for a stroll?”

I replied without much energy that I was trying to find one of the roads back to Desert Hot Springs, Bermuda Dunes or Palm Springs.

“Well if that’s your case,” he replied, stopping us in our tracks, “you’re walkin’ the wrong way.”

It was jarring that he actually connected with me here, that he had actually heard my words. I tried to react casually to this. “Oh?”

He stopped and I stopped and he said to me, “Look, whatever you’re doin’ out here, that’s okay. Maybe you didn’t want to see me and,” he smacked his lips, “maybe I didn’t see you. But that there’s the road you want to be walkin’.” He indicated a small “Y” in the road a stone’s throw back. “And it’s maybe an hour to Dillon Road. Not that you’ll be closer to much. Hot Springs, maybe. It’s a two-hour walk from there. Capish?”

His tone of voice made it clear that it took a strong act of will for him to be able to connect with me as much as he already had. I nodded, and his face dissolved back into its previous craziness.

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