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STRANGE ACQUAINTANCES Part 4 Andreas Bukhardi
Upon a dimly lit street in a sleepy dimly lit town, a pub with its doors wide open, on a warm summer night, stood tall with dim yellow light pouring out of its windows. At a table just outside, by the road, flanked ever so uncomfortably by the gutter and a beer barrel chute, sat four individuals, their features somewhat obscured from a distance… all except two. He was a man of middle years, uncomfortable-looking and dressed plainly but altogether not unpleasant, meaning perhaps that he tried ever-sohard to fit in, unable as he felt to make his existence seamless. He was darting around as if anxious to speak but not knowing exactly what to say. Opposite him was a woman, but otherwise with no distinguishing features, and much like the other two individuals either side of the table, they all sat awkwardly, stiffly, and with a degree of stillness that one would deem unnatural. Their clothes were neither stylistically, temporally, nor as a function of resting on a single person, fitting. Imagine, for a moment, a person, someone random that you’ve seen on the street perhaps, and then imagine that they’re wearing items that could only be acquired from a Chinese twodollar shop. This was his company. And much like his company, the pub itself felt lifeless. Sure, the light was on, but no one seemed to be alive. The band in the corner, sat behind their instruments, was staring into space. The bartender stood behind the bar, as well he should, frozen mid-way through polishing a schooner the way you’d see done in a John Wayne Western, waiting for some pilgrim to happen by. The patrons likewise, strewn about the place, positioned haphazardly this way and that. The three people sat about the table outside were looking at the man. Oddly, their faces were blank. While they did have eyes, noses, lips, all of the usual parts one would expect to find on a face, these were unfinished, angular, as if ripped out of a Terry Gilliam film and edited by a child to avoid copyright infringement. He finally spoke. The woman sitting opposite him was ever-soslightly more defined, but not by much. Man: I’m glad you could all make it. I’m sorry about the state of the place. I’ve tried to clean up but there is so much on my mind right now so I hoped against hope that you wouldn’t mind. I realise that none of this is finished. He pointed awkwardly at a wad of paper on the table in front of him. Man: I realise also that this state of flux may be… well… uncomfortable for you all, but I shall seek a remedy for this immediately. Hanging from his shirt was a pair of reading glasses that he put on and LIBRETTO
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