Croatian dogs bark make a background sound, dog conversation over great distances, covering the whole neighbourhood outside of pula. The hiss of traffic and the hiss in the right ear, on the right hand side of the head. It is the sound of tyres on hot tar, there is only occasionally the sound of an engine to be heard. It is Tuesday, five to eight, and the boy racers are still asleep, or at work.
And, now, there is the sound of the first one, high revving sport mufflered engine, proclaiming the potency of its owner.
Son and wife are still asleep, it is too early yet for them to be up and making plans for the beach. They are both sleeping silently to themselves now.
The sun is blistering down continuously, going from pleasant to unbearable and back again every day. Rain had been predicted, but that just does not seem credible now, with the risen sun dissipating the haze left over from the dawn dew.
And there is some croaky bird outside too, a finch? Cocks crow in the distance, as they had done in the dead of night at three in the morning.
Heat is dearly beloved by so many, lightly dressed people, overweight office hounds. How to make a living and how to get on, come here, live in the make believe that their humble existence back home allows them to act like lords here, when all is just a matter of exchange rates and politics. The people are not a friendly people by nature, they are rough with each other, and abusive to their guests when they can be.
There homes and privacy are an amusement park for the common people of another country.
Unless they take care, they will have none left.
Like a many facetted diamond, it is just a lump of carbon formed by temperature and high pressure, given a form by having its surface polished.
And, now, there is the sound of the first one, high revving sport mufflered engine, proclaiming the potency of its owner.
Son and wife are still asleep, it is too early yet for them to be up and making plans for the beach. They are both sleeping silently to themselves now.
The sun is blistering down continuously, going from pleasant to unbearable and back again every day. Rain had been predicted, but that just does not seem credible now, with the risen sun dissipating the haze left over from the dawn dew.
And there is some croaky bird outside too, a finch? Cocks crow in the distance, as they had done in the dead of night at three in the morning.
Heat is dearly beloved by so many, lightly dressed people, overweight office hounds. How to make a living and how to get on, come here, live in the make believe that their humble existence back home allows them to act like lords here, when all is just a matter of exchange rates and politics. The people are not a friendly people by nature, they are rough with each other, and abusive to their guests when they can be.
There homes and privacy are an amusement park for the common people of another country.
Unless they take care, they will have none left.
Like a many facetted diamond, it is just a lump of carbon formed by temperature and high pressure, given a form by having its surface polished.
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