Life In Toronto

[moon_custafer]

 The man standing casually by the door on the opposite side of the subway car is very clearly a character in some story. He is wearing a panama hat, glasses, some kind of L.L.Bean roughing-it coat, a dress shirt, high-waisted pants and brown oxfords. He has a newspaper tucked under on arm and a little rollaway suitcase. He is rapidly and methodically eating a packet of roasted peanuts, and quietly surveying everyone around him. He has a least two pens in his shirt pocket, and possibly a pocket-protector, but a crowd of people got on and I have lost sight of him.

Comments

[monanotlisa]

But what kind of story..?

[sovay]

He is rapidly and methodically eating a packet of roasted peanuts, and quietly surveying everyone around him.

This is a wonderful sketch. I tend to associate quiet surveyors of crowds with Leslie Howard, but I do not associate Leslie Howard with panama hats.

[moon_custafer]

He looked a bit like (googles) Max Wright.