Subj : Some questions
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Sun Aug 27 2017 13:05:00

Hi! alexander,

On Sun, 27 Aug 17, you wrote to me:


 ak> In Russia we have a kind of electric boards/shields, but, 
 ak> IMHO, it would be the last place where to search for
 ak> keys. ;-) In addition, there are no secret nooks in such
 ak> boxes.

Yes.  Just as I said.  Other places could be under the door mat, under a potted 
plant by the door (or the third on the left, if there is a bunch of them), or, 
on a 'sil' over the door itself (if indeed there is a sil).  It's a bit like 
John Connor explaining to the Terminator where to find car keys in a car, 
instead of destroying the steering column.  ;-)

 ak> This page is a good substance for smoking. I found two more
 ak> places where I feel bad. :) Now I printed it down and
 ak> "smoke" it. 

(In the new highlight...)  It looks like the girl may not be sure of her 
feelings towards him at this early stage.  'I will write to you', she said.  
Mmm... what's wrong with the phone system?  That's worse than "I'll call you".  
;-)

 PQ>> I'm thinking the bloke doesn't like being by himself in a 
 PQ>> lonely car park;
 ak> I feel it too. :) But I somehow can't swallow the phrases
 ak> like "There could be no meaning in the asphalted space, the
 ak> parked cars, the harsh light. From some immense distance he
 ak> viewed it and it did not contain him."

He didn't want to be there.  I've done it myself.  At the end of a long hot 
day, in a place where there should be many people and I'm stuck in this stark 
place due to circumstances.  He imagines him not being there, and wishes it so.

 PQ>> he doesn't relish going back to where he must go back;

He's not looking forward to returning to a dull routine without her...

 ak> You were good, but how to be with "But the trees would be
 ak> drawing about the darkening road, and the paddocks and
 ak> rises stretches into the distance."

Australia is a huge place beyond the beach, where he is at the present.  
Obviously his boarding-house is a far place, perhaps a remote-seeming country 
setting.  It happens here, in my locale.  30km eastwards to Hervey Bay there is 
a high-density tourist place, with about 30km of sandy beaches in either 
direction, north or southwards of the township.  30km west of here to Tiaro 
township there is a low-density rural place of sometimes drought-affected 
farms, attempting crops of sugarcane, macadamia nuts, ginger (and others I 
cannot think of), as well as animal stock (beef, milking cows, sheep, goats & 
chickens).  A 'paddock' has an indefinable dimension, and can be a corral size 
or be some immense multi-hectare grazing/crop space.

So, he may not be looking forward to a lonely drive of even roughly 60km.  
Especially not at dusk... where the perhaps leafless trees and shadows might be 
framing his loneliness.

 ak> She was a girl he had met a day before.

Ah, so.  Thanks.  :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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 * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)

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