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Onlooker on the Hoe

Posted in People, Places with tags , on June 21, 2008 by thecatcanwait

From behind this guy looked like somebody i might know.

Pony-tailed “Andy” from University days.

He stood on the Hoe, looking out to sea, smoking – with that self-possessed onlooker look about him that Andy often had; like he was spectating life (and you included) – from afar – with cool and solitary detachment.

I was taking pics of the ferry moving out to Roscoff.

This guy kept glancing across to me to see where i was pointing the digi – and whether i was pointing it at him.

He gazed back out to sea, puffing away.

Eventually, smoking – and looking – done, he trudged off.

I “snapped” him just as he was disappearing (around Smeaton’s Tower)

Walking his lonely off to somewhere else.