A man is in his office looking through a telescope. Another man has entered through the door beside him.
The man is staring into a telescope that is pointed at a wall.
Why is he looking at the wall?
Let me know when the paint is dry.
scene: an office room description: A man is in his office looking through a telescope. Another man has entered through the door beside him. uncanny: The man is staring into a telescope that is pointed at a wall. entities: Telescope, Voyeurism. caption: Let me know when the paint is dry.
A play on the phrase "watching paint dry" --- usually, that idiom means a very boring activity. But here, the activity is literally watching paint dry, here, through a telescope. It's odd because it appears this is an office, and the employee's job is to watch paint dry while his boss oversees him.