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“That summery night, I had decided to return home from the Charell’s on foot. … [S]orry that I hadn’t asked Alain more questions, but a kind of torpor had come over me: the entire evening I’d spent with them in the the twilight of the balcony had a dreamlike haziness. And again, down the empty streets of Neuilly, I thought I heard the clop of horses’ hooves and the rustle of leaves from 20 years ago.”
— Apr 17, 2024 11:35PM
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Michael
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“…Yotlande watched the aged young man of sixty, alone at his table, head bowed under the weight of his peroxide couf. What was Pam-Pam Mickey thinking about this evening? And why do certain people remain prisoners, well into old age, of a single year in their lives, becoming the decrepit caricature of what they used to be in their heyday?”
— Apr 15, 2024 03:31PM
Michael
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“When I walk along the river, I remember the snow from those days, which coated the statues of Albert I, King of the Belgians, and of Simon Bolivar, symmetrically placed at a hundred yards’ distance. They, at least, haven’t budged, each one stiff as ever on his horse, indifferent to the swirls in the murky water that the houseboats leave in their wake.”
— Apr 15, 2024 01:41PM
Michael
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“Alas, with advancing age comes the realization that one won’t play major roles, but rather walk-ons, cameos.”
— Apr 14, 2024 02:02PM
