probably I'd be stuck in the liminal space, the walking between worlds -- the here and there, the now and then.
I *know* it's her, today, but I could *believe* it was a him, sixty years ago, caught well-aware and wary, on leave or just off duty. I would wonder who was taking the picture, what he or she had said or done to *get* that expression on him. And I would ultimately hope it ended well, that he came home again, after the war, in one piece.
(NB: I'm an archivist in real life, and I once came upon several pictures like this one, only actually from the 1940s, of men at home either on their way to or from a war, posed in front of houses and garages in Newark. I never learned their names or what had happened to them, and wish I could have.)
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Date: 2008-07-06 08:35 am (UTC)Re: "Hi Jack!"
Date: 2008-07-06 09:15 am (UTC)I *know* it's her, today, but I could *believe* it was a him, sixty years ago, caught well-aware and wary, on leave or just off duty. I would wonder who was taking the picture, what he or she had said or done to *get* that expression on him. And I would ultimately hope it ended well, that he came home again, after the war, in one piece.
(NB: I'm an archivist in real life, and I once came upon several pictures like this one, only actually from the 1940s, of men at home either on their way to or from a war, posed in front of houses and garages in Newark. I never learned their names or what had happened to them, and wish I could have.)