This reminds me of an odd moment just after 9/11. I happened to be in a shopping mall when the announcement came that we should stand in silence for three minutes to show our respect for the dead. The whole place immediately stopped and a total hush descended. Then, far in the distance, came the tapping sound of heels on marble and right through the central corridor, the noise ridiculously loud in the stillness, swept a puzzled-looking woman dressed in flowing black Arab robes.
If I could have taken a photograph of her whisking through the ranks of motionless Western people I think I could have sold it to a newspaper to encapsulate the feelings of that day.
- posted by Iris @ 3/15/2004 11:56:00 AM comment