A Supersonic Day by Gregory Clark

Author:Gregory Clark
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Limited

This Town is Full of Strangers

There are many sensations to the business of growing older, many of them unpleasant. But the haunting one is the feeling of being a stranger in the place you knew so well.

In youth, if I remember, there is the feeling of being a stranger as you set out on your own into the formidable world. But most of us in a little while gather around us familiarities of people and place, and in the young prime of the thirties, we are very much at home in a world we love. The happier our forties and fifties, the more we love the familiar world, and there are no strangers in it, least of all ourselves. But somewhere in our sixties, family and friends begin quietly to drop away. For a while we don't notice that we are becoming surrounded by strangers. Then it occurs to us that the place which we have known so long isn't the same. The streets have changed. Tall buildings full of strangeness where there were short buildings, familiar as our hat on the doorknob. We hurry home.

The sights change, the sounds change, the pace changes, the young speak an alien tongue. As if by stealth, the realization comes to us that we are strangers in the place we thought we knew so well. It is an eerie feeling.

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