The distance between the landing and the sidewalk isn’t great, yet he inhabits one world and the white men in their suits and ties, advancing and walking briskly through the streets, exist in another. Wretched of the Earth (1963: reprint New York: Grove Press, 2005) 16. Richard Wilcox (1952: reprint New York: Grove Press, 2008) 99.
Msuic practice session synonym skin#
He was outside the world-“nothing!” When their eyes land on him, he feels the gaze like a blade against his skin and his body retreats from the assault, anticipating where a blow might land, flinching before the kick. Few ever noticed him except in a way that stung.
Msuic practice session synonym full#
No one glancing casually at him would use a phrase like “towering figure” or waste a moment wondering about his position at the bank words like idle or lingering or un-mastered or servile brush at the murky edges of consciousness, latent and without the full awareness or deliberateness of thought, because most of the men rushing through the streets of the financial center rarely perceive him.
A nod, a look of recognition, a meager hello, a begrudging acknowledgment that he exists are not forthcoming. Perched at the top of the stairs, the customers and employees of the bank brush by as he hesitates near the entrance. He watches the human swirl as it moves determinedly along Broadway.
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