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title: Time Lapse
description: // TIME LAPSEThere is an old man who works at the end of my street in Hong Kong. Every day he sews clothes, repairs handbags, and stitches thread
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## [Time Lapse](https://www.mike-walsh.com/blog/bid/50409/Time-Lapse)

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 6/5/09 11:47 AM

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There is an old man who works at the end of my street in Hong Kong. Every day he sews clothes, repairs handbags, and stitches threads. He never looks up. When I walk past him I think of those sped up movies they play on TV of a plant growing, as the sun and stars move around in a blur. Except in my tailor's case, it would glittering skyscrapers growing, collapsing and rising again at high speed around him as he worked. I wish I could be there to take a picture of his expression at the moment he finally looked up.

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