Music, in a Foreign Language by Andrew Crumey

Author:Andrew Crumey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dedalus Limited
Published: 2012-11-04T16:00:00+00:00

Many thoughts would stream through his mind during the hour which followed – scenes in which he would imagine how the woman, or one of her companions, had entered the room and taken the book. Scenes of the way in which they might now choose to deal with him – a lonely figure, anonymous and unmissed; a figure taken out during the night, unheard by the staff who did not even know his face. Images in his mind, during the hour which followed, of those two people whom he had watched so closely – whom he felt he now knew – taking him, his hands bound behind his back, with a blindfold across his eyes. His terror, a sensation beyond fear – a strange new realm of calm, where he would wait (what sweet images might he try to think of?) until at last the dull thud would meet the back of his neck and he would die without hearing the report of the gun, or smelling the smoke from its barrel in the cold night air, and his lifeless body would feel nothing as they bundled it into the boot of the car.

It would be an hour rich in thought – an hour such as he had never before known. And during that time, he would go once more to the window, and throw back the curtains behind which he had hidden. He would look down onto the deserted street below – the street whose every corner he knew so well – and he would see only the twisted lines of his own handwriting; the meaningless lines which had betrayed him. And in his mind he would recreate again and again that place where they might take him; the woman going into the building first, and then the other leading him blindfold – he would be led stumbling in terrified darkness up unknown stairs. Apologizing perhaps for his own clumsiness. Into the echoes of a bare room, where his feet would shuffle on the floor-boards beneath him and he would hear the cocking of a handgun.

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