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118 pages, Paperback
First published August 23, 2007
For the first six months he had written often, telling me he had time to go fishing for omul in the lake and make kites for children.
And the, silence.
I knew that the return trip is the real journey, when it floods the days that follow, so much so that it creates the prolonged sensation of one time getting lost in another, of one space losing itself in another.
With a big smile, she retorted that she would rather we proceeded differently: for all past dinners, for this one and the next ones, she would only ask in exchange that I occasionally read to her a little, if I had the time.
"Tell me again about that gutsy girl again," Clémence Barrot would sometimes ask about Marion de Faouët and her army of brigands. She had, just as I did, a real affection for that child who had not grown up to become a lady's companion despite all the efforts of the Jaffré sisters. NO, she became a leader of men instead, an avenger of Brittany which had been starved during the 1740's.
I had just read 'There are encounters with people completely unknown to us who trigger our interest at first sight, suddenly, before a word has even been said..."