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Page 49
She let him in. They talked. Then came the laughter. Now he's keeping quiet.
Perhaps he's unable to stem the tide of words flooding out of her? Unless he's
enjoying the show she's putting on. I couldn't care less about their life. And yet it
hangs ...
She let him in. They talked. Then came the laughter. Now he's keeping quiet.
Perhaps he's unable to stem the tide of words flooding out of her? Unless he's
enjoying the show she's putting on. I couldn't care less about their life. And yet it
hangs ...
Page 58
I thought: Perhaps she doesn't exist, perhaps she's just an apparition? Then she
got up, sighing contentedly, and disappeared for good into another room to get
dressed. That's when I took her place at the dressing table. All lined up on the ...
I thought: Perhaps she doesn't exist, perhaps she's just an apparition? Then she
got up, sighing contentedly, and disappeared for good into another room to get
dressed. That's when I took her place at the dressing table. All lined up on the ...
Page 100
Inexplicable satiety and the agreeable feeling of being right where I ought to be.
Perhaps Belgium is the land of sugared torpor, the land of bliss. Perhaps it would
be good to die here. At this very moment in Paris, some people are discoursing ...
Inexplicable satiety and the agreeable feeling of being right where I ought to be.
Perhaps Belgium is the land of sugared torpor, the land of bliss. Perhaps it would
be good to die here. At this very moment in Paris, some people are discoursing ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Sweet Death: A Novel |
| Author | Claude Tardat |
| Publisher | Overlook Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0879512911, 9780879512910 |
| Length | 130 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General |
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