A Guide to Berlin (2015)
“Vladimir Nabokov’s Nestorstrasse. Marco Gianelli’s Nestorstrasse.
The message from Marco told her that Gino was staying for a few nights somewhere near Oranienplatz; would she join him for dinner? Cass all at once felt a kind of trepidation. It was serious now, now that she had spoken of herself, now she had exposed her eccentricities and her odd selection of tales. She must prepare for questions and curiosity and the seductive power of mutual confession. She thought of the curve of his bare ba...ck, and her own arms encircling. She thought of how sex both generalises and stipulates, how it was this all-purpose lust, vital and urgent, and this glimpse of an individual, singular spine.
Cass buzzed ‘Gianelli’ and was admitted to the building. She found the light switch inside the doorway and illuminated the stairs. It was a shabby-looking lobby, stinky and dim, with paint flaking from the walls and a grimy stairwell. Four leaning bicycles crammed the hallway. She climbed nervously to meet him.MoreLess
The message from Marco told her that Gino was staying for a few nights somewhere near Oranienplatz; would she join him for dinner? Cass all at once felt a kind of trepidation. It was serious now, now that she had spoken of herself, now she had exposed her eccentricities and her odd selection of tales. She must prepare for questions and curiosity and the seductive power of mutual confession. She thought of the curve of his bare ba...ck, and her own arms encircling. She thought of how sex both generalises and stipulates, how it was this all-purpose lust, vital and urgent, and this glimpse of an individual, singular spine.
Cass buzzed ‘Gianelli’ and was admitted to the building. She found the light switch inside the doorway and illuminated the stairs. It was a shabby-looking lobby, stinky and dim, with paint flaking from the walls and a grimy stairwell. Four leaning bicycles crammed the hallway. She climbed nervously to meet him.MoreLess
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