Self Portrait

'The most eloquent testimony....may come from

those most reluctant to give.'(Geoff Dyer)

SMO©2012

where do you see yourself ten years from now?

A RECTANGULAR SHODOW LESS THAN A FOOT WIDE CROSSSED THE WHITE DUST OF THE ROAD . It lay at a slight angle from the perpendicular without quite reaching the opposite side: its rounded -almost flat-extremity did not protrude beyond the middle of the road , of which the left side remained unshaded. Between this extremity and the close -cropped weeds bordering the road had been crushed the corpse of a little frog, its legs open, its arms crossed, forming slightly darker gray spot  on the dust of the road. The creature's body had lost all thickness, as if nothing but skin were left-hard dessicated, and henceforth invulnerable-clinging to the ground as closly as the shadow of animal about to leap, limbs extended-but somehow immobillized in air. To the right the real shodaw, which was much darker, gradually became paler, disappearing altogether after a few seconds.

Mathias lifted his head toward the sky. *

**the Voyeur/Alain Robbe-Grillet