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If you're hungry you eat. If you're alone, you find someone to talk to. This is the rationale Clarins took as he looked about at the doileys and leches he saw as he gazed about the restaurant. His eyes come to a halt at a time-honoured man who seems captivated in his meal, seemingly lost in his own world. A perfect mix of oddity and complacency.
He's inquisitive by nature and proceeds to venture into the mystery that the man eludes fully intending to converse and exorcise the mannerisms of the man we come to know is a widower named Loos.
The two could possibly be polar opposites as he glimpses into the world through Loos' vantage point which dares to proclaim certain misgivings and criticisms that Clarins has.
But in these drawn out conversations you will revel and see your head nodding in agreement at times with the older gentleman and at times with the easy come easy go nature of the younger one. Loos is certainly a character you won't forget for a while.
The back and forth exchange of opinions and experiences between these two odd protagonists on the surface seem almost stressed with Clarins being so forward but what transpires is a vividly comforting and familiar communique. There's wisdom, there's humour albeit askew within their conversation. I'm surprised many haven't read it for it's a quaint little book actually.
Even in the most different of people, you will find that common denominator we all seek in individuals and some surprising coincidences which made me wonder at least that there's a reason we all meet those whom we do in life.