COOL GUY
Favourite lines from recent readings
“My friend came, my friend left, I played a round of Golf, had lunch-dinner, and then for the first time I sat down to digest my meal in one of the armchairs.” (30 Jan 2022)
“All-embracing technics is in fact the consciousness of the mechanized world.” (29 Jan 2022)
“You had to just know.” (28 Jan 2022)
“You would have expected the Great Depression of the 1930s, in particular, to pose the clubs something of a threat.” (27 Jan 2022)
“She gets scared when I return home drunk one evening when she’s babysitting the child, so drunk that my teeth are black with wine and my lips smeared with brown” (26 Jan 2022).
“I know. But sometimes you have to anticipate.” (25 Jan 2022)
“Infinite-limited, is that you?” (24 Jan 2022)
“—Ochre? —Ochre.” (23 Jan 2022)
“If only you had seen it coming.” (22 Jan 2022)
“My years in show business had to some extent weakened my moral sense; however, I still had, I believed, some convictions.” (21 Jan 2022)
“This is my second book.” (20 Jan 2022)
“I just can’t anymore. Not at this point, in any case.” (19 Jan 2022)
“I was alone, Jean-François having gone to Darty to buy a fan.” (18 Jan 2022)
“This phenomenon, of slipping into the style of another writer, gives you great freedom and joy in your manipulation of language. You are ventriloquist and chameleon.” (17 Jan 2022)
“Yeah, but I mean, what’s changed?” (16 Jan 2022)
“He could read Spanish very well, but if he planned to stay in Rome now, then it really was advisable, and he was vacillating between private lessons and an Italian class organized by the F.A.O.” (15 Jan 2022)
“It makes no sense to consider yourself a writer before you finish the first steps of your education.” (14 Jan 2022)
“How can you say you’re certain now when you weren’t before?” (13 Jan 2022)
“The day Chimal arrived they were also the only ones who came out to greet him.” (12 Jan 2022)
“All-embracing technics is in fact the consciousness of the mechanized world.” (12 Jan 2021)
“You just had to know.” (12 Jan 2020)