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Index
Cover
Landing Page
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
The account which I’m about to write
It was on the second of January, in 1980, that I settled in Paris
My father is a solicitor by profession
For the next few years I had three types of sex
I arrived in Paris, as I said before interrupting myself
The time has come for me to speak of the Berlitz
The doyen of the English staff
If Schuyler was, as I say, the colleague most present in my life
The third of my Musketeers was an Englishman
And so we come to Ralph
Though there was, as you would expect, a high turnover
Those classes now
Such were my days
If there were no such thing as happiness
When I got back into my room at the Voltaire
It may be a strange thing to say
The incident inaugurated a new era
I wrote earlier of three occasions
So my life settled into its routine
It was two weeks later when the subject arose again
When perceived from a certain angle, living in a city is like living indoors
Meanwhile, news of the gay cancer was beginning to filter through
To return to those halcyon, ostensibly halcyon, days
To return to those halcyon, ostensibly halcyon, days
Except for the cranky night porter
But I wrote above that there had been one exception
To my everlasting shame I forgot all about Ferey’s appointment
To whoever is reading me
For me, there was to be one unforeseen consequence
One night, after a session at the Flore
After Ferey the second of my gay acquaintances to depart the common room
And then, another three or four months later
He left the Berlitz soon after
The gathering was held inside a disaffected, gasometer-grim atelier
From that very evening on, I was assailed by the most fantastic of apprehensions
It was in a bookstore that I met Kim
This next conquest was Mathias
It was then that began my systematic exploration
And there, reader, you have the end of my story
As for me, all I can do is await the inevitable
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