Matt’s Reviews > Giovanni’s Room > Status Update

With that moon-faced little girl who thinks babies come out of cabbages — or frigidaires, I am not acquainted with the mythology of your country.

No. It would help if I were able to feel guilty.But the end of innocence is also the end of guilt.

Spain is not like that at all. Whatever else Spain is, it is not frivolous. I think, really, that I would stay in Spain forever—if I had never been to Paris. Spain is very beautiful, stony and sunny and lonely. But by and by you get tired of olive oil and fish and castanets and tambourines—or, anyway, I do. I want to come home, to come home to Paris. It's funny, I've never felt anyplace was home before.

You think... that my life is shameful because my encounters are. And they are. But you should ask yourself why they are. Why are they—shameful? Because there is no affection in them, and no joy. It's like putting an electric plug in a dead socket. Touch, but no contact. All touch, but no contact and no light

Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden,' Jacques said.