Sunday, August 27, 2017

EXCERPT: Davos (10)


It was good to sit down. As much as Franco liked walking, there was a time to walk and a time to stop walking, and this was it. Cool summer mountain air, green fresh grass, the concrete fountain made as if it had been made by a fourteen-year-old, whatever that meant. The mountain and the fountain were pals at this point, and perhaps nothing else gave Franco a sense of wellbeing than that. It made the idea of what lie ahead for him at Davos suddenly relaxed, exciting and attractive, all at the same time. ‘We have to do it. Don’t you see?,’ Franco thought. The friendly concrete, solid and stable, mixed happily with the water and the metal, the metal rusting in a gesture of humility and generosity that so filled Franco with pride and hope that he could barely contain the feeling within him. ‘Yes, Davos, do you understand now?,’ Franco asked of no one in particular, of everyone in general, and most of all in his own mind.

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