![]() They dance and kiss, and she says that she will take him home even though her husband is at their house, asleep- and their wedding took place two days earlier. ![]() After noticing patients at the hospital across the street, the narrator enters a bar where he meets a women. The narrator informs the reader that in previous times in which he told this story, the readers speculated that the "Polish" man was making a pass at him but the narrator neglects the thought and moves on to speak about his arrival at Seattle and his clash with his friends' neighbor who thought he was a burglar and threatened to call the police. ![]() He tells the narrator about a fire in the Cuyahoga River, and explains that it spread because the pollutants in the water were flammable. After engaging in a somewhat lengthy conversation, the man admits that he, in fact, is not Polish, but is really from Cleveland. The man drinks with the narrator and tells him stories of his motorcycle and the midnight curfew in Warsaw's public parks. ![]() Denis Johnson's "The Other Man" begins with the narrator's encounter with a Polish man on the ferryboat from Bremerton to Seattle. ![]()
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