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Chevalier de Seingult had a saying that an affair consisted of four acts. The first act was like the entrée or solicitation, the second act was like a further hors d’oeuvre in anticipation of the primo and the secondo. Of course, these culinary metaphors were not always appropriate. In the case of Signorina Teresa Imer, …
The scene, to his eyes, was more like a scene at the beginning of the fourth act. The apartment was not that big: two rooms sparsely furnished. The ceiling, though, was extraordinarily high, and the windows were correspondingly tall. There were six or seven of them as the apartment was a corner one. Snow was …
You may well ask why I look to the horizon when my little ship is adrift in the gutter. When Achille Lombardo told me he had started doing English lessons, I laughed my head off. If I was the worst in the class at school, Achille Lombardo was not far behind. “Achille,” I said. “Remember …
The new prisoner Seiko decided he did not want the top bunk, which was above the Mute’s. He turned to the Mute and informed him that they were changing places. Then, he picked up the Mute’s blanket and gave it to him. The Mute, however, put the blanket back on his own bunk. “Are you …
In the casino of the cruiser a billet was handed to me on a silver tray. When I found Q’s cabin, I realised I was drowning in bathwater. The bus took her up past the cemetery and through the industrial estate. The road was full of potholes and when the bus went over the bumps …