peter2 - The Monday Morning Memo

“Knives of sunlight flash off the lake. Boats motor back and forth, unzipping the water. At the service station a shirtless man with a deep tan watches an attendant pump gas into his Cadillac. Impossible that such things have been going on all these months.

Mrs. Boydstun watches him. He understands that people will want to hear something, but not the truth: they’ll want a story of perseverance and pluck, good overcoming evil, a homecoming song about a hero who brought light into a dark place. Beside him the waitress is clearing a table: three of the plates still have food on them.

Mrs. Boydstun says, “You kill anybody over there?”

“No.”

“Not a one?”

The eggs come sunny-side up. He pierces one with the tines of his fork and the yolk bleeds out, glistening obscenely.”

- Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

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