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There is a lot of symbolism in breaking down in a country you have been inventing your whole life.

The cheapest hotel in Paris-the Acacia in the Eleventh Arrondissement... The whole evening I listen to the bed in the room above me creaking in a precise, robust iamb. A thought crossed my mind and I wrote it down: the cheaper the hotel, the more furious the fucking.

"No one has yet thought up a gas mask and bomb shelter that protects against time."