Scratchiti-scarred windows.
Some walls remain bullet-scarred, a few windows lie shattered: More than four months on, Westgate shopping centre in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, still bears its battle wounds.
Room 431 had graffiti-scarred desks and no windows.
Walking around its square enclosure, you recognise the traces of small windows, the door and scarred walls of a claustrophobic working space within a stultifying institution.
Across the street, the widening butchered the 10-story headquarters of the Francis H. Leggatt grocery firm, and its scarred west wall, although later given windows and store spaces, bears testimony to the brutality that can accompany civic improvement.
Do you spend the first four days of your week scrolling through the Sport Bible Facebook page or waiting for Twitter to kick off about the latest moral catastrophe, nursing obscure chest pains, desperately awaiting that moment where the clock turns 5 or 6 or 6.30 so you can hit the nearest pub and throw a load of shit you wouldn't de-ice your car windows with down your scarred, collapsing airways?
Do you spend the first four days of your week scrolling through the Sport Bible Facebook page or waiting for Twitter to kick off about the latest moral catastrophe, nursing obscure chest pains, desperately awaiting that moment where the clock turns 5 or 6 or 6 30 so you can hit the nearest bar and throw a load of shit you wouldn't de-ice your car windows with down your scarred, collapsing airways?
The land is scarred and the town is scarred".
They peer through the shattered basement windows and gingerly poke around the chained and scarred front door.
Grime on the windows, piles of garbage on the sidewalks, and scarred walls of dilapidated buildings compose the settings for Lisa's search for food and shelter, and also for her confrontations with the cold power of the police, with the relentless and inescapable violence of the streets, and, above all, with the deranging, identity-rending ravages of physical and emotional trauma.
