Kit Reed Interviews Scott O’Connor: The Reed/O’Connor Dialogues, Part Two
“I think the world is a strange and mysterious and fascinating place that we only scratch the surface of.”
When they came to the field, Miriam first thought the women were still busy at a late harvest, but she saw that the maidens, scores of them, were just sitting on little boxes at intervals in the seemingly endless field. There were people in the bushes at the field’s edge– Miriam saw them. Every once in a while one of the men would start off, following one of the brilliantly colored strings toward the woman who sat at the end of it, in a white dress, waiting. Frightened, Miriam turned to Mrs. Clark. “Why am I here? Why? Mrs. Clark, explain!
— Kit Reed, “The Wait”
“I think the world is a strange and mysterious and fascinating place that we only scratch the surface of.”