and maybe even agreed that it was regrettable that he’d intentionally put the man in the white shirt in this nonvehicular predicament.
It would certainly have been better than the alternative, which was to hiss: “So maybe you’ve learned to read signs now! Illiterate bastard!”
Ove’s next move involved trying to convince the man that Rune should not be put in a home.
The man informed Ove that “Illiterate bastard!” was a very bad choice of words for bringing up that subject.
After this, there was a long series of impolite phrases on both ends of the telephone line,
before Ove declared in clear terms that things could not be allowed to work like this.
One couldn’t just come along and remove people from their homes and transport them to institutions any old way one liked,
just because their memory was getting a bit defective.
The man at the other end answered coldly that it didn’t matter very much where they put Rune now “in the state he was in”
because for him it “would probably make a very marginal difference where he was.”
Ove roared a series of invectives back. And then the man in the white shirt said something very stupid.
“The decision has been made. The investigation has been going on for two years. There’s nothing you can do, Ove. Nothing. At all.”
전체재생
다음페이지
문장검색