Thank you so much
L
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From: "Peter Ciccariello" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: Snap 1 June 05
> Perfect moment Lawrence.
>
> -Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:50:03 +0100
> Subject: Snap 1 June 05
>
>
> Snap 1 June 05
>
> A grabshot from far back on a bendy bus, two or three vehicles back from a
> main road. Because of all the people outside of and travelling in the bus,
> and all of the adverts on the windows of the bus; and with all of the
> reflections in what glass there is left clear, it is difficult to see
> clearly or in anything like its entirety much that is outside.
>
> Ahead of us, a small pushy bunch of a queue is beginning to congeal on the
> pavement to our right: people waiting to cross the road we are using.
> Perhaps three layers back, there is a woman holding a female child by the
> hand.
>
> Her expression is indecisive, inquiring and cautious; and perhaps worried.
> One assumes it will resolve itself when she has somewhere permanent to
stand
> or is able, finally, to cross the road.
>
> But there is also an emptiness in her face which is greater than the
> neutrality sometimes called a blank stare.
>
> She havers between the apparent emotions, especially caution and inquiry;
> and there is something else which I find poignant and tentatively
> attractive, discernible only by its effect, like a breeze, or a lie told
out
> of general hearing.
>
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