a lover applies make-up and paints herself out of the narrator's radar and the room with "blinds half-lowered like eyelids before a kiss". And in the stunning "A Department Store Escalator, Paris", a woman is sighted on an escalator and an imagined biography takes hold, the shared life they will never lead. "In the café your wife asks why you're so distracted. Nothing, you tell her, it's nothing." It is life's answer to Google, the vivid sighting of a stranger--a passing moment--in the flesh.[by Adam O'Riordan]
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from The Guardian: In the Flesh by Adam O'Riordan
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