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4. London - Germany. Karel and Waleria. The Canterbury Tales. English vowel sounds. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Parzifal. Divine Comedy.

5. Copenhagen - Spain. Kristian; editor Elin; Foreign Minister Edvard Dahlin. C’est la guerre.

6. London - French Alps. James; Paulette; Noyer; son Tommy. Land developments.

Watching woman drive manual-transmission car drive up mountain:

"Second, third. Third, second, third. Her thin, tanned arm is permanently in action. Her elegantly sandaled foot. (Well-maintained toenails, he notices – hard pink shine like the inside of a shell.)"

‘I woke up one morning and realised it was too late to change anything. I mean, the big things.’

‘I don’t think it’s ever too late to change things,’ she says.

He just smiles. And he thinks: That’s the thing about fate, the way you only understand what your fate is when it’s too late to do anything about it. That’s why it is your fate – it’s too late to do anything about it.

That’s impossible, right?
Isn’t it?

“He was still trying to think of a single significant instance, in his whole life, when he did not get what he wanted. The fact was, his life was exactly how he wanted it to be.”

1. Ferdinand and Simon. Berlin-Prague. The Ambassadors; Yearts.
2. Bernard. Lille-Cyprus. Uncle Clovis and Baudouin. Iveta, Sandra, Charmian.
3. Balázs; Emma and Gabor. Budapest-London. Harry Potter.