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Winton’s estranged friend appears in the essay “In the Shadow of the Hospital.” He calls Winton to ask him to visit him at Fremantle Hospital, having seen the roof of Winton’s house from his hospital window. This friend jolts Winton into considering the many people who look down from the hospital yearning for human connection, when previously he reduced the idea of the hospital to a monolith of fear and chaos.
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In the Shadow of the Hospital
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Afterwards I often looked up at that dreary building as the sun lit its windows and thought of strangers staring out in hope and regret as the rest of us went about our day oblivious. It was sobering to think of all the yearning that spilt down amidst the treetops and roof ridges, a shadow I’d never properly considered before.
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Tim Winton’s Estranged Friend Quotes in The Boy Behind the Curtain
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In the Shadow of the Hospital
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Afterwards I often looked up at that dreary building as the sun lit its windows and thought of strangers staring out in hope and regret as the rest of us went about our day oblivious. It was sobering to think of all the yearning that spilt down amidst the treetops and roof ridges, a shadow I’d never properly considered before.
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