The Acrobats (2002)
“The sky was bulging with clouds. The first rains of autumn were threatening. Chaim was pleased. He enjoyed Paris in the rain. It did something for the streets.
It was almost eight, time for apéritifs. The terrace of the Café de Flore was crowded. The unknowing young, also their defeated elders, chattered at their tables, all looking smartly anonymous. Not yet honestly disillusioned but pretending, they idled with such intensity so as to defeat idleness itself. Along the pavement, in front of th...e terrace, the homosexuals passed. Always their eyes stricken, their lips waiting, as if there must be a friend or at least an enemy on the terrace, not just the others, also waiting, also pretending to be late for an appointment, not only more neurotic laughter, more sobbing in dim corners, more pink gins.
“Hey, Chaim! How about buying me another cognac?”
“Okay, Sam. But don’t say I didn’t warn you. You’re going to die of mal au foie. Everybody in France does.”
Sam looked brown and healthy.MoreLess
It was almost eight, time for apéritifs. The terrace of the Café de Flore was crowded. The unknowing young, also their defeated elders, chattered at their tables, all looking smartly anonymous. Not yet honestly disillusioned but pretending, they idled with such intensity so as to defeat idleness itself. Along the pavement, in front of th...e terrace, the homosexuals passed. Always their eyes stricken, their lips waiting, as if there must be a friend or at least an enemy on the terrace, not just the others, also waiting, also pretending to be late for an appointment, not only more neurotic laughter, more sobbing in dim corners, more pink gins.
“Hey, Chaim! How about buying me another cognac?”
“Okay, Sam. But don’t say I didn’t warn you. You’re going to die of mal au foie. Everybody in France does.”
Sam looked brown and healthy.MoreLess
Read book The Acrobats for free
Write Review:
Guest
Read Also
7 / 10
User Reviews: