{"id":5631,"date":"2025-04-18T13:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T20:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/?p=5631"},"modified":"2025-04-18T13:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T20:58:18","slug":"the-situation-in-djeppe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/spring-2025\/the-situation-in-djeppe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Situation in Djeppe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n  \n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>The Situation in Djeppe<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n    \n          <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span>Henry Romain<\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">April 18, 2025<\/span>\n      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style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who was that girl?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben did not know. Lucy did not know. Armando did not know. Neither did Altamira Maskawa, shrugging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who was that bereted girl whose green eyes shot like two blinding comets past the lobby door\u2019s bullseye window dumbfounding me as I stood manning L\u2019H\u00f4tel Djeppe\u2019s reception?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Someone has to know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does anyone in here know who that bereted girl who just walked by the door was?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heads shaking, staring blankly, resoundingly saying no. I will have to find for myself the bereted girl into whose green eyes I looked as they zipped past the window like two comets in a telescope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Altamira Maskawa, may I go?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Altamira Maskawa, shrugging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vaulting over the counter, running out of L\u2019H\u00f4tel Djeppe and down the sidewalk. Afternoon sunshine alighting pedestrians\u2019 shoulders, firetruck sirens wailing far away decrescendo into oblivion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who was she? I ask individuals as I run down the street, stopping and starting again at each one of them:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A policeman puffing a pipe: I don\u2019t know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A drunk drinking a drink: I don\u2019t know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lady holding lettuce: I don\u2019t know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A mime, gesturing: (I don\u2019t know).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Catching my breath at the corner of 12th and Minou St., remembering briefly a diorama of the earliest winged insects I saw at Le Mus\u00e9e de Biologie yesterday, a yellow taxi zooms by.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Was that her?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Could she be on the way to Bordeaux, my destiny irrevocably reconstituted by the toe of a career driver\u2019s expert throttling?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No. Visually following the taxi as it zips by the corner until happening through a retail window display to land upon her green eyes as she leafs through records in a yellow crate across the street.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comets stop?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaysprinting across Minou, sliding to a halt outside of the window as two cars\u2019 honks rapidly crescendo until then crash into each other, shards of shattered windows quietly tinkling as they scatter about the road. People say Sacre bleu!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her pausing painted-red fingernails minusculely reflecting my bewildered expression from a series of different angles as they stop to hold a Mulatu Astatke record perfectly still.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What to say now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Running inside, doorchime above door chimes, she looks at me. God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I just saw you walk by L\u2019H\u00f4tel Djeppe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I just saw you working the counter at L\u2019H\u00f4tel Djeppe through that bullseye window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was me. I have run after you because I am furiously in love with you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is your name?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her downturned eyes looking at my outstretched hand while she doesn\u2019t shake it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I do not respond well to unsolicited approaches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She hates me and I know for certain that she hates me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am sorry but when your eyes passed by the lobby door window it was like two comets shooting across the lens of a telescope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have never used a telescope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neither have I. I was using language to convey the phenomenologi\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her finger disabling my talker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve had it with men like you who think that just because I looked curiously into a window in passing you can come up to me and pretend to be an astronomer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am not pretending to be an astronomer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You are blushing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Am not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alice, I can assure you that I know that very well, if you could only give me a minute I could explain how it is your very eyes that have veritably changed my life and unlocked new horizons of passion in my humble reception-boy\u2019s heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have heard this all before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has heard this all before?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have heard this all before?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tell me everything about yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, I was born in Montreal and my star sign\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On a deeper level than that, Alice! By everything I meant only the deepest things!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I believe that the fundamental meaning of life is to connect to others because then you mean something to them and they mean something to you, when it comes to metaphysics I\u2019m an realist, I believe that most people are living lives that they are told to live instead of lives of their own design, I believe that the world will end when\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She thinks and I know that she thinks. But what does she feel?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alice, I am listening intently and am sorry to interrupt you, but please would you tell me what it is that you feel at the deepest level?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I sometimes feel an inexplicable intense desire to hear music, a desire which compelled me to visit the record store this afternoon and purchase a new record which I plan to bring home and put on my record player and let spin while lying on my bed smoking grass until I am satisfied, then I think I will go to sleep, then dream, hopefully, though often I cannot dream after smoking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She feels, she thinks. I am helplessly in love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am helplessly in love with you, Alice, you feel, you think, I have never been more enthralled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m flattered. Now tell me about yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myself?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be vulnerable!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, I um\u2026 My greatest fear is that I will never feel as fulfilled again as I was when I was in love with someone named Lyla, my second greatest fear is that I will die without learning the meaning of life\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But I have just told you the meaning of life!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014I believe that God made life without meaning, that life is all for fun, I believe\u2014and I have never told anyone this before\u2014I believe that we do have free will, I do not trust determinists, I do believe in synchronicity, I do believe in the limitlessness of individual ch\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doorchime above door chimes, an Italian and a Scot walk in wielding car fenders like baseball bats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In sync: We are going to kill you, reception-boy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I look at Alice, terrified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She looks at me, smiling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We must go. She grabs my hand and we leave this world together without a word.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Henry Romain<\/strong> is a poet from Des Moines, Iowa, currently finishing up his B.A. in English from the University of Southern California abroad at the University of Edinburgh. His work has appeared in <i>Palaver Arts Magazine<\/i> at the University of Southern California, <i>The Inkwell<\/i> and <i>Contemporary Arts Society<\/i> Magazine at the University of Edinburgh, <i>The Underground Literary Magazine<\/i> at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, and <i>ONEA Zine<\/i>. 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