Wednesday 4 November 2009

Is That Me?

  

   "Is that you?" Asked the middle-aged American woman behind the counter as I put the book down.
   How could I answer? I just chuckled and said "No." I thought she was simply saying I looked like Bill. But I was wearing a cap, not a trilby.
   She stared down at the cover, saying "It looks like you," in a level tone, not laughing, barely smiling.
   She couldn't really think it was me, or that I would be buying a biography about myself. Yet the way she said it gave the impression that she could almost be thinking that.


4 comments:

  1. You were obviously exuding essence of Literary Outlaw, Robin.

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  2. Yeah...'Literary Outlaw' courtesy of Hugo Boss...ideal Xmas present...get mistaken for Bukowski, Kerouac, Joyce...and Stewart Home, even...

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  3. True, I could have been buying a Jeffrey Archer novel...

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