attention, so he studied the shoe, pulling at his cigarette. he moved to the left and looked at it from another angle. although it lay close to a large pool of oil, it appeared to rest on a patch of dry land. cola took another step to the left, one that drew him out into the full violence of the sun, and studied the area around the shoe, looking for its mate. there, under the clump of grass, he saw an oblong shape that seemed to be the sole of the other one, it too lying on one side.
he dropped his cigarette and crushed it into the soft earth with 