![]() The old man pressed his face closer to the window. «My little Kalmuck, that’s who it is! My little Kalmuck with a picture in the finest shop in Paris! Just imagine that!» Very strange and crazy -but I like it… Chaim Soutine… Soutine… Attached to the frame there was a little plaque, and on this it said:ĭrioli stared at the picture, wondering vaguely what there was about it that seemed familiar. of trees leaning madly over to one side as if blown by a tremendous wind, the sky swirling and twisting all around. It was a landscape, a clump 5 A small group of trees or plants growing closely together. He checked, looked back and now, suddenly, there came to him a slight uneasiness, a movement of the memory, a distant recollection of something, somewhere, he had seen before. This one had a single canvas on display in the window. He moved on glancing without any interest at the things in the shop windows -perfume, silk ties and shirts, diamonds, porcelain, antique furniture, finely bound books. of roasting chicken brought a pain of yearning to the top of his stomach. ![]() The door of a café opened and the faint whiff 4 A smell that is only smelt briefly or faintly. in a filthy black coat, only his eyes and the top of his head visible above the turned-up collar. He was cold and miserable, huddled up like a hedgehog 3 A small nocturnal Old World mammal with a spiny coat and short legs, able to roll itself into a ball for defence. painfully along the sidewalk of the rue de Rivoli. The old man who was called Drioli shuffled 2 Walk by dragging one’s feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground. ![]() Although it was April, a freezing wind blew through the streets of the city, and overhead the snow clouds moved across the sky. That year -1946- winter was a long time going. It was adapted for television as part of Anglia Television’s Tales of the Unexpected, broadcast in March 8, 1980. ![]() By Roald Dahl 1 It was first published in the issue of The New Yorker, and was later featured in the collection Skin and Other Stories, published in 2000. ![]()
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