Watching from the window

Een sterk fragment van Raymond Carver uit het verhaal Viewfinder.
Sterk, omdat Carver niet alleen een scherpe waarneming beschrijft,
maar ook laat zien wie waarneemt.

'I knew how he held the camera. It was an old Polaroid,
big and black. He had it fastened to leather straps that looped
over his shoulders and went around his back, and it was this
that secured the camera to his chest. He would stand on
the sidewalk in front of your house, locate your house in the
viewfinder, push down the lever with one of his hooks, and
out would pop your picture.
I'd been watching from the window, you see.'