The Humans_A Novel by Matt Haig
Author:Matt Haig [Haig, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2013-07-02T04:00:00+00:00
Lightbulb
âHave a nice time?â Isobel asked on my return. She was standing on top of one form of primitive technology (stepladder) changing another one (incandescent lightbulb).
âYes,â I said. âI did some good groaning. But to be honest with you, I donât think Iâll go again.â
She dropped the new bulb. It smashed. âDamn. We donât have another one.â She looked, almost, like she might cry about this fact. She stepped down from the ladder, and I stared up at the dead lightbulb still hanging there. I concentrated hard. A moment later it was working again.
âThat was lucky. It didnât need changing after all.â
Isobel stared at the light. The golden illumination on her skin was quite mesmerizing, for some reason. The way it shifted shadow. Made her more distinctly herself. âHow weird,â she said. Then she looked down at the broken glass.
âIâll see to that,â I said. And she smiled at me and her hand touched mine and gave it a quick pulse of gratitude. And then she did something I wasnât expecting at all. She embraced me, gently, with broken glass still at our feet.
I breathed her in. I liked the warmth of her body against mine and realized the pathos of being a human. Of being a mortal creature who was essentially alone but needed the myth of togetherness with others. Friends, children, lovers. It was an attractive myth. It was a myth you could easily inhabit.
âOh Andrew,â she said. I didnât know what she meant by this simple declaration of my name, but when she stroked my back, I found myself stroking hers, and saying the words that seemed somehow the most appropriate. âItâs okay, itâs okay, itâs okay . . .â
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