The parallel consciousness of self and surroundings... is the key to transforming mentalities and reshaping societies.” -

Edouard Glisant


Saturday 18 June 2011

Mice and Rats

I am waiting to pay, standing in the queue at Pick ‘n Pay in the Park Meadows Shopping Centre. Suddenly the cashier - a substantial woman with huge, booted feet - lunges from her seat behind the till to stomp on a mouse running across the shop floor. She kills it! 

Shoppers in front and behind giggle at my shocked reaction, apparently unmoved.