Week 3

October 6, 2014

Excerpt from Chapter II

Vera:

“You would come home after chatting with our new neighbors in the stairs. Your collection of maps would fit well in the bedroom; Beirut, Turkey, Queens, Cochabamba and Greenland. You are probably still searching for a perfect one of London? You always take your time. We could have a large room only for your machines and tables. An enormous cupboard for your material, like the mahogany and birch. When you are working I knock on the door and say: tea is ready.”

Narrator:

“By creating a future in her mind she regains control of reality, and Amin becomes a character that she can place. She talks to him silently, describes their life together in London and how they must have a bigger place where Amin can do his woodworking. She doesn’t know that he stopped doing that a year ago. Vera describes the beautiful things, the sound of the tablespoon in the coffee cup, him feeling proud of his hands because she thought they created very special things.”