When I had a stoop
Brooklyn, New York, 1996, in front of the Watchtower building, which was the world headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
A stoop (with head down and shoulders slumped) suggests submission to what is really intolerable, and feeling an obligation to carry the weight of the world with my own body.
With embarrassment too, a feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
That's how it was for me, then.
When I had a stoop
Brooklyn, New York, 1996, in front of the Watchtower building, which was the world headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
A stoop (with head down and shoulders slumped) suggests submission to what is really intolerable, and feeling an obligation to carry the weight of the world with my own body.
With embarrassment too, a feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
That's how it was for me, then.