#407 The Two Davises and the Rug- Lydia Davis
This collection by Davis, can’t and won’t, is a different kind of short fiction collection
than any of the others so far. Most of the “stories” are simple, one phrase,
one sentence, one paragraph pieces, some listed as dreams. I probably wont use
many of them here, unless I find one or two that are exceptional. Perhaps, I’ll
use a few in one post.
This piece isn’t one of the dreams, but it is rather short.
Two Davises, a man and a woman live in the same town, one a man, and one a
woman. They are not related and do not know each other, until one day the
female Davis decides to sell her rug. It’s a bold colored rug from he son’s
room. They both have the same feelings for the rug, they are strongly
ambivalent. They like it, then aren’t sure. Being very strong opinioned people,
it is odd that they can be so unsure of they feelings about something so
trivial.
I started stressing out over the indecision myself.
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