Our Shadows by Gail Jones

Author:Gail Jones [Gail Jones]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2020-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

At length he roused himself, checked his pocket watch, and realised that he was needing his afternoon chocolate. Paddy collected his coat and umbrella, touched the nose of the giant brass lion to the left at the top of the library steps—a kind of superstitious gesture he had no explanation for—and set off, preoccupied, up Swanston Street. There was a light Melbourne rain and the air was ashimmer, as if in the wake of a receding tide. Distant thunder could be heard. A storm was approaching. Pedestrians were hurrying now, popping open their umbrellas, closing them again as they leapt on a tram or inside a shop. Coats shone with rain-slick; everything was flooding with light, everything seemed to him in a process of furling and unfurling. He would have stood there simply looking, had not a speedy young man almost bowled him over, rushing towards him, unseeing, in the direction of Lonsdale Street. The man was pock-marked and made Paddy snatch at a shred of something forgotten. Then he was gone, and the flimsy shred too was gone, and there remained just a sour whiff of wet clothes, and a sudden sad tiredness, and the need to get home for his chocolate and his tea.

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