Wednesday, June 21, 2017

EXCERPT: Davos (7)

Marcello Mastroianni in the woods. That is what was needed: the handsome romantic, who nevertheless chooses to play the fool, because he is so much better at it, because that is what is inside him. This is what the woods needed and this is what Davos needed. But this was not Franco. Or it was, a bit, the jokey woodsman, the glancing forester. With his thirst slaked, hunger fell upon him. The cheese in the sandwich that he fished out of his backpack repulsed him, reminding him of the herd of steer being led down a mountain path, unsure of why they were in the mountains to begin with, strangely out of place, it seemed, just as the lactating cows on the beach seemed not to belong, but why? Cows to pasture, cougars to the hills? Is that the way it was or was supposed to be? Mountain lions sneak into the cities looking for water now. Where were the cows supposed to be? Flatlanders always? What about horses, always the plains?

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