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Page 68
I didn't fast and yet the memory returned, clear and in full color. Thanks be to
Proust! I hadn't expected so much. While I was preparing to write a few lines in
this diary, as I do almost every day, the ink stain threatened me again with its
scorpion ...
I didn't fast and yet the memory returned, clear and in full color. Thanks be to
Proust! I hadn't expected so much. While I was preparing to write a few lines in
this diary, as I do almost every day, the ink stain threatened me again with its
scorpion ...
Page 98
He's interested in his profit, cranking out photos without noticing their subjects,
but his customers are eager to see what's in that humid rectangle of fresh
memory he holds out to them between thumb and forefinger like a dirty
handkerchief.
He's interested in his profit, cranking out photos without noticing their subjects,
but his customers are eager to see what's in that humid rectangle of fresh
memory he holds out to them between thumb and forefinger like a dirty
handkerchief.
Page 116
Then: inscribe every aspect of his face and form in my memory forever (viaticum
for the final stage of my sugary voyage); pay the bill for our last cakes together;
say goodbye casually, avoiding all hint of a last farewell, so he won't suspect ...
Then: inscribe every aspect of his face and form in my memory forever (viaticum
for the final stage of my sugary voyage); pay the bill for our last cakes together;
say goodbye casually, avoiding all hint of a last farewell, so he won't suspect ...
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