#753 Western Passage- Amelia Gray
You meet a lot of odd people on long distance busses. The dynamics can be interesting. Sometimes there is just someone that needs to be protected from the dangerous elements that can be found on bus rides. On this bus there is such a man, large, dirty, and ogling every female passenger as he goes past. Our narrator is a string woman and knows how to deal with such a man.
“When he smiles at me, I held my gaze one inch into his eyes, not at but in, where he might register my personal wall. This trick took thirty years to master. From there, we had an understanding.”
The woman sitting next to her needs protection, so she thinks. She’s alone and needs a place to stay and wants to sidle up to the man. But in a move of sisterhood or something the narrator threatens the man and invites the girl to stay with her. This move is both territoriality and very animalistic. We’re not sure entirely of her motives or whether she herself is the real danger.
Notable Passage: “Attention is the most worthless currency on the planet…When you treat it like it’s precious, you’re blinding yourself to the possibility that you might find it elsewhere. And it’s everywhere, attention is.”
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