Sublime

To a certain cross section of clerks in that city of rubber stamps, carbon paper, and spindles, he had become a familiar figure, a slender, tall twenty-year-old with nice manners and a rumpled suit, appearing in the middle of a stifling afternoon, looking painfully cheerful. He would doff his hat. The clerk or secretary—a woman, more often than not

“Balzac, Dante, Joseph Conrad, Dickens,”

As if it were a fait accompli,

Je vous disais donc que les mômes ont gueulé pendant des heures quand j’ai donné Super pour assurer son avenir qui n’existait pas chez nous, sauf Banania, qui était très content, comme toujours. Moi je vous dis que ce salaud-là n’était pas de ce monde, il avait déjà quatre ans et il était encore content.

This place is too calm, too natural – too complete. I don’t deserve it. At least not yet.

sybaritic

enigmatic