flin12
10-05-2012, 12:12 AM
Hello,
I wonder if this thin description of a short story I read years ago in college rings a bell .
I do not recall the author.
The story is about the demolition of a building and the author is describing an exposed room (a child’s room, I believe) and guessing, somewhat sadly, what the residents lives were like.
There were lines like “a fleck of yellow in the wallpaper in a child’s room”
and how as an observer was watching the wrecking ball a pigeon stops, cocks its head and flies away. And the author observes “everyone is fascinated by destruction“.
The title may have the words raze and or carpenters in it, but I know it is not “raze low the roof beam carpenters“, which is another story I read that year.
It was for a class and in a book of short stories by various authors, but I have always wanted to read it again.
Any Takers?
Thanks.
I wonder if this thin description of a short story I read years ago in college rings a bell .
I do not recall the author.
The story is about the demolition of a building and the author is describing an exposed room (a child’s room, I believe) and guessing, somewhat sadly, what the residents lives were like.
There were lines like “a fleck of yellow in the wallpaper in a child’s room”
and how as an observer was watching the wrecking ball a pigeon stops, cocks its head and flies away. And the author observes “everyone is fascinated by destruction“.
The title may have the words raze and or carpenters in it, but I know it is not “raze low the roof beam carpenters“, which is another story I read that year.
It was for a class and in a book of short stories by various authors, but I have always wanted to read it again.
Any Takers?
Thanks.