The Designer

by Marius Gabriel

‘It’s perfectly possible to love Paris while detesting the French,’

‘Lesbianism has been a public spectacle in Paris since the 1850s. It’s practically a profession. One of the performing arts.’ ‘In Paris, being a woman is in itself a profession,’ Copper said ironically.

‘Love makes one brave.’ Catherine shrugged. ‘Or perhaps foolish. Who can tell the difference?’

‘The bodies were piled up everywhere: in boxcars, in the

huts, in the incinerators. Not bodies – skeletons. Some of the skeletons were even walking around and talking as though nobody had told them they were dead.’