Ah yes, waiting for an hourly bus at a request stop on a blind corner. You can't let your guard down for a moment - and a moment sometimes turns into 90 minutes.
> surprising brevity
[I've not read the Bible but] I've seen this in The Odyssey, too. You know the island of the Lotus Eaters, where the inhabitants sit around, eating lotus and descending into pharmacoepeial reveries? Homer covers the whole of that stop of the voyage in about as many lines as this. Some of these tiny stories have the power to unpack in a similar way in lots of people's heads, into a much richer scene.
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Ah yes, waiting for an hourly bus at a request stop on a blind corner. You can't let your guard down for a moment - and a moment sometimes turns into 90 minutes.
> surprising brevity
[I've not read the Bible but] I've seen this in The Odyssey, too. You know the island of the Lotus Eaters, where the inhabitants sit around, eating lotus and descending into pharmacoepeial reveries? Homer covers the whole of that stop of the voyage in about as many lines as this. Some of these tiny stories have the power to unpack in a similar way in lots of people's heads, into a much richer scene.