a person sitting at a table reading a book at a toronto public library.
two more people (an elderly othersex couple) , come along they sit down at the table next to the first person . soon along comes a fourth person who sits at the same table as the first person . this person seems to know the elderly couple and they start talking about some pictures of churches the old women had developed in her darkroom the day before and then the old man tells the other guy he recently bought new binoculars .
a strange conversation , seemingly all of it meant to be overheard by the first person , goes on between the old couple and the fourth person . where they say they can see his apartment from their apartment . "oh I don't mind you can't see much from that far" he says , "not until I bought the binoculars now I can see right in your bedroom , you were busy last night , he seemed to be one we havnt seen you with before (laughs) . oh I shouldn't be talking so loud every one" , meaning the young guy sitting at the table with you , "can hear me going on about the life you lead" , meaning they watch him having sex with other men in his apartment from their apartment . "oh I'm sure he knows all about that sort of thing" says the second guy in an arche tone.
a couple of months later while visiting a fifth person the first person comments on the lack of curtains in his apartment , "the people in the tower apartment across from here can see right in your apartment". oh he doesn't mind if they watch , "i know an old couple across the hall who like to watch , if you want i could goe get them ", something clicks but not loud enough for the person visiting and he looks at his host with a no thanks look , he then notices and comments on the hole in the ceiling above the bed , the person says "yeah since I don't use the bedroom and have the bed here in the dining room the ceiling-lamp was in the way so I took it down and haven't covered over the hole" .
a couple of weeks after that while at a cafe he thinks the guy who came out of the wash room before he goes in seems familiar though he can't place the face , inside the washroom on the lid of the trash can are boxes from several elder-porn films , thats when he recalls the day at the library and thinks the guy who came out of the wash room was the guy who was talking to the strange othersex couple , he puts the video boxes in the garbage and leaves .
several weeks after that incident he notices a seemingly greater than usual number of elderly , even decrepid , othersex couples with binoculars in hand or around their necks lurking along the path of his daily wanderings around the city.
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