Keith [on semi hiatus]’s Reviews > Quiet days in Clichy > Status Update

-Henry Miller
New York City,
May, 1940.
Rewritten in Big Sur, May, 1956.

"They're all like that," said Corinne. "La pudeur."

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"By the way, Eliane seems quite stuck on you. Why don't you look her up? She's not a bad lay, I can vouch for that. You don't have to waste time on preliminaries; just whisper a few kind words and push her over. She's got a cunt that works like a suction pump..."

I placed my hand squarely over her cunt, which was steaming like manure under her dress, and said: "Christine, what a wonderful name! Only a woman like you could own such a romantic name. It makes me think of icy fjords, of fir trees dripping with wet snow. If you were a tree I would pull you up by the roots. I'd carve my initials in your trunk ..."

...matter what happens."

The fat, rosy-cheeked girl who usually greeted me was not there. It was she who had told me one day, when Christine and I were together, that we should get married quickly or we would regret it.
"She's married already," I had said laughingly.
"But not to you!"
"Do you think we would be happy together?"
"You will never be happy unless together. You are meant for one another; you must never leave each other, no...

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Shared route
From Place des Vosges to Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine via Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine.

22 min (1.6 km)


1. Walk north
2. Turn right towards Rue du Pas de la Mule
3. Slight left towards Rue du Pas de la Mule
4. Slight left towards Rue du Pas de la Mule
5. Turn right onto Rue du Pas de la Mule
6. Turn right onto Bd Beaumarchais
7. Slight right to stay on Bd Beaumarchais
8. Turn left towards Pl. de...

Embrassez-moi!... Plus fort, plus fort, chéri...