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I've got recognized this city basically via night (daylight adjustments everything); how have I already been the following earlier than? in a dream final evening? final month? This dismay is popular to many, intangible and unpleasant. Later. it's been raining demanding for hours; the air and nation-state are heavy brown and sopping wet with ozone, a aid after the continuous honey-glitter of the azure coast. i'm exceptionally discouraged approximately my paintings. For months my in simple terms principles were a pallid unspontaneous musical mass of treacle. Rain, and the room the place I write is agrool with a buzz of mating flies who get stuck even in my hair and make me shriek. If simply this rain purify my tune, for I don’t comprehend into what iteration I’ve been put. I hire twelve notes designed after a development that my very own ear craves (all sincere composers needs to do that d’ailleurs). yet am I too younger so as to add new rules to my elders who're my effect (and who say, “If it have been 20 years in the past I may still stick to those children”)? Or too outdated to amuse myself fiddling with the experimenters who're no longer precocious yet grim? The worst of it truly is that I simply don’t care. in the meantime I learn and browse, no longer as an highbrow (I don’t search to train myself) yet for my realest pleasure. And in the meantime I play the piano a few: the Chopin Ballades of my formative years, or outdated songs of my very own making. And in the meantime, it is going on raining. i've got simply counted in my time table the variety of occasions i've been under the influence of alcohol because the starting of the 12 months: eighteen! Eighteen occasions in approximately thirty-four weeks, or a standard of as soon as each twelve days (though within the summer-country I drink as soon as each 5 weeks, and in winter-Paris two times a week). this is often greater than I suspected, but a undeniable development through the years among 1944 and 1952. I haven’t inebriated days in a row for over 3 years; and among drunks while I don’t drink, I don’t drink. now not even wine. nowadays, i'm now not attracted to filling my tackle ebook with grand names, yet am turning again as an alternative towards these who’ve consistently been strong: kinfolk, first associates (as for the ego, i'd really, at the least, have the parasites chatter in my small shadow, than to chatter myself in different shadows). the day before today, regardless of my carrying on with trouble in ultimate seated (because, i assume, of a bothered prostate), we drove, Marie Laure and that i, to within sight Collobrières to go to the chestnut wooded area and take tea with matrons glacés. As a toddler, I as soon as screamed to mom, “Look! ” as I swung daringly in a tree; however it used to be now not rather a lot the ability of my swing, because the narrowness of the twig i needed her to determine. … P. informed me that lately with partners in Dorno he burned a snake alive: in the intervening time of ache it thrust forth 4 tiny legs. i used to be surprised. It used to be now not on the unlikelihood of a serpent’s latent extremities (a serpent already is an extremity relocating: accordingly our worry and fascination) as at P. ’s childly cruelty. might be I’m too literary for song. whilst at paintings on a large piece I’m bored ahead of it’s a 3rd performed: having the ability to see the bridge’s different finish removes the necessity for arriving there.