志异 Draft by Drama box July 2014 (english) | Page 58

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I sit in the waiting area of gate 119,
I’m about to board the plane back.
On my left sits a six-year old girl who
has sandwiched herself between two
armrests, fitting snugly in the chair that
can only hold the bottom of an adult.
I wonder if I too, could at one point in
time been small enough to fit into gaps
of things around me. It would have
been a perfect hiding technique. She
knocks the tips of her toes against the
hard surface of the table rhythmically, a
common tactic to lull oneself to sleep. I
remember I was once as restless as she.
Yet in her restlessness she finds nothing
else more desirable than to fall asleep in
the waiting area of a boarding lounge.

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I walk through the British Museum
today and a white marble statue of
a girl stops me in my tracks. It is the
marble bust of Clytie, that originates
from the Roman empire. In Greek
mythology, Clytie, a water nymph
fell in love with the Sun God, Apollo.
When he deserted her, she was
transformed into a sunflower, turning
her head to follow the sun on its daily
course form East to West. I wonder
what happened to her at night.

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