Разные места и годы - Франция, США, Гонконг. Один мой день - фейсбучные Memories
Do it or don't do it - you will regret both." Soren Kierkegaard
"Venus remains in the morning sky but is gradually closing back in towards the Sun. You can see it shining at a brilliant magnitude -3.9 at the start of the month when it rises a couple of hours before the Sun"
"From mid October, observers situated at mid-Southern latitudes are the first to lose sight of Venus from the dawn sky as it slips into the bright Eastern horizon."
Из Фейсбука 23 октября 2012 года
Two British women sat down on my bench so I scooted over to make some room for them. They said Merci and went on discussing the boyfriend.
One of the women was a teacher in Yemen and her boyfriend, also a teacher, had a drinking problem. He was all right for most of the time, but then he would have binges and become untransportable for a few days. "He would miss work" as she put it. So she took care of him, in Yemen, suggesting that he should move up to Saudi Arabia, where there was no alcohol. He would say yes but it did not go anywhere.
He went on to hire expensive hotels for his binges, to cope with the local limitations. Then, one night, he was taken to the hospital. When the British woman arrived he was pronounced dead. The Yemeni doctor said "liver failure" but agreed to change it to "heart failure" in the death certificate, for a small tip. (This is where I began to disagree, it's almost always a genuine heart attack. The doctor probably wanted a bribe and lied to her.)
She went thru his stuff searching for family contacts and she found his sister's phone number. And a diary. The diary had some rancid episodes of her boyfriend having sexual favors from local women, basically girls (students).
His sister refused to accept the body (she said she was going on vacation in a week); but she gave the British woman a number for another sister of his.
Meanwhile I was listening to the guitar work and vocals of a very young black Frenchman, who did a great job with his little Fender amp. We were all perched up on the bank of the Seine, in the orange light of a warm October sunset, right across the Pont des Arts - unaware of each other's sensibilities.
Гонконг 23 октября 2018:
France
USA
Коротенький клип: https://youtu.be/Vv-g7lPy8qI?si