Blind biker
January 25th 2011 23:33
I'm in the process of reading Alexander McCall Smith's book,The Unbearable Lightness of Scones. It's one of his 44 Scotland St series.
McCall Smith can suddenly interrupt a seemingly innocuous piece of writing with something absurd, as here:
She paused, gently took the photograph from Matthew, and slipped it into the packing case. 'It was very hard for him [her father], losing his sight. I thought that this would stop him riding his bike, especially when it got so bad that he had to get a guide dog. But you know what he did? He trained the guide dog to run alongside the motorbike. That's how he did it. That's how he became the only blind biker in Scotland.'
Matthew listened in astonishment. 'Do you mean...'
'Yes. The dog was called Rory and he used to run alongside the bike, with my father holding his lead in one hand and the other hand on the handlebars of the motorbike. Of course he couldn't' go all that fast, as Rory used to get tired after a while, but he once went all the way from Comrie to Crieff and back again.'
[pg 58]
McCall Smith can suddenly interrupt a seemingly innocuous piece of writing with something absurd, as here:
Matthew listened in astonishment. 'Do you mean...'
'Yes. The dog was called Rory and he used to run alongside the bike, with my father holding his lead in one hand and the other hand on the handlebars of the motorbike. Of course he couldn't' go all that fast, as Rory used to get tired after a while, but he once went all the way from Comrie to Crieff and back again.'
[pg 58]
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